Mysteries and the Nature of Magic

I am a father. Nothing more profoud upon my life has ever been uttered by me or anyone else that I have ever known.

I have a beautiful new daughter, Little Buddy. She and Mrs. Buddy are the things that give meaning to my life, and I am so happy these days that I can't imagine how I got along before. People tell me it only gets better, but again, I can't imagine.

Lately the birth of Little Buddy has inspired me to embark on the knowledge quests of old times, that is my old times, things like I used to do. For a while, I stopped looking for things and stopped trying to learn new things in favor of simplifying my life and other such silliness.

I've come to realize now that there is no reason why I cannot have a simple life as well as a lot of money and lots of varied knowledge. Already I can talk on a wide range of topics with the folks at work, so I have a good start. My boss seems adequately impressed that I can keep up with him on whatever he chooses to talk about (unless it's Civil War history) so I think I am good there.

So with my new vision quest comes many an opportunity to visit the library. That coupled with the fact we've eliminated digital cable from our house means we visit the library 4 times a week or more for DVDs, books, and whatever else we can find there. In fact, there is a vast resource that I believe is untouched by a significant number of taxpayers in our city in that many don't know exactly what you can do at the library.

Granted, I have not taken in a lot of the programs that are scheduled at the library, so I don't really know if they are great things or not. I imagine that anyone who is volunteering their time to hold some sort of event at the library will be doing it either out of love of the subject or boredom, so there could be some wide variance there on the quality.

Still, if you're poor like me, free stuff is free stuff.