Warak Kayu Microlibrary

   

 

 

Microlibrary Warak Kayu, Semarang, Indonesia

All of us addicted to reading are clinging even tighter to our books in this horrible mess of a world. Here’s something to cheer you up for the new year. Gert saw this wonderful building on a TV program. Doesn’t it just lift your heart?

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Li Bai : You ask why…

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest

and I smile and am silent

and even my soul remains quiet

it lives in the other world which no one owns

Peach trees blossom

water flows

 

Li Bai Trans Sam Hamill

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Soon a new year is beginning. The old year shuffles off covered in shame.

May we continue to gain solace from the world of nature

May your family be safe

And may books and music add joy in these dark times

The Gerts

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