Empowering individuals to build a stronger community
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” This quote is sometimes attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but many have repeated it. “Be the change you wish to see in the world…” has a similar ring.
Some schools of thought say that we should live in the moment and enjoy the journey of life and not live for the destination. Yet others look far into the future such as the cause and effect philosophy of Karma. “Think globally, act locally” promotes a balanced approach to life decisions.
It is so easy to get caught up in day to day tasks and not think about the future, but pausing to reflect each day can help set sights on what we are leaving behind in our short lifetime.
How does this relate to libraries? Well, at one time we didn’t have a library, and now we do. Thanks to the forethought of a local visionary and the help of volunteers who helped the idea grow. Now we have a small library bursting at the seams and serving thousands of visitors a year. We are looking to the future and envisioning what we can be a decade from now. What are your ideas? Join us to help create our future!
This inspirational quote is inscribed in the foyer of the historic Chicago Tribune Building:
John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
“Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test. Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! this our fathers did for us.”’
Marge Lewter, CCPL Board of Trustees
Library News:
- Board of trustees meeting Sept 11, 6 p.m. at the library
- Desk volunteers needed- get free computer training and social interaction! Inquire at the library.
- Barn Quilt Raffle: $5 at ticket- to be drawn at Fall Festival
- Fall festival: Big book sale and children’s activities
The Book Barns are always available for browsing and purchase of a variety of books! Help us turn book donations into dollars for programs and new media!
