Day 3,477

Whew – almost back up to 100%!!!

I remember spending hours curled up with a good book when I was a kid. The story would wrap itself up all around me and keep a firm grasp on me until I finished it. In high school I read a novel from cover to cover from after practice until late in the evening, I just couldn’t let it go. There are still a fans full of those books on my shelves, reminders of the joy I found in reading so long ago.

Over the past few weeks I’ve allowed myself to get more wrapped up in reading than I have in a while. As I pore over the pages I can’t seem to let the story go. There’s something so calming about going to a book rather than the news, social media, television, sports, and whatnot. A sense of lasting, of enduring. More of a sense of truth, of reality.

Reading is like a hike in the woods for my brain, an opportunity to breathe, to exercise, and to experience.

Thanks!!!