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I love books. I store them in bookshelves. I have stacks of them around me. I loan them to friends. When I run out of space for them, I give some to friends or take some to the library (this choice saves money at tax time). I enjoy curling up with one in my favorite chair. I read bestsellers, computer books, science fiction, mysteries, make-you-feel-goods, make-you-crys, how-tos... lots of books! Like Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, I want to hold a real book when I read. No reading from a computer screen or listening to a recorded tape. The process of choosing one to read and picking it up, of turning its pages and the feel of the paper, of placing a beautiful bookmark at the spot I'm about to leave and of setting it down, of acquiring new realizations... is all very satisfying, comforting. It's hard to imagine not knowing how to read, not being able to stretch your imagination by reading. When I hear of some person or group or nation burning them, or wanting to, it hurts. Books are our connection with the past and our fare to the future. I believe they are the best medium, and certainly the most attractive, that we have to record our ideas and our knowledge and our cultures. I love books! I also enjoy using a computer. The Internet has become my spare time activity. Amazon.com has been my favorite online bookseller since my first purchase there in July of 1996. I still go to bookstores and browse and buy. But I also go to Amazon.com and browse and buy. For those of you who also want to browse and buy online, I offer the following links: Lions Clubs International - I joined the local Lions club in 1993, and have enjoyed the friendships formed and the good work we do. Here are three books concerning Lions: Service Clubs in American Society : Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions by Jeffrey A. Charles, Hardcover We Serve : A History of the Lions Clubs Paul Martin, Out-of-print (but can be found) The Dynamic World of Lions International : The Fifty Year Saga of Lions Clubs by Glenn D. Kittler, Out-of-print (but can be found) Massage Books - I have always been good at giving backrubs. In 1990, I finally decided to take a massage class. I took out the local Yellow Pages and found The Human Touch. The rest, as they say, is history. My back couldn't take the hard work involved in giving real massages (probably because I didn't have a proper table to use when I practiced on friends). I only managed 5 of 8 classes. But I did start getting a massage once a month. I still go to Joel Tull in Greensboro, NC, the person who taught the class. Getting a massage is a wonderful thing to do for yourself! Philatelic Books - I started collecting stamps when I was in grade school. I gave it up after a few years and didn't pay attention again until I was in my early twenties. After looking for my old stamp album at home, I discovered that the stamps had been carefully licked at each corner and pasted onto the pages. For a child, this had seemed to be the right thing to do. As an adult philatelist, I could only be glad none of the stamps was truly valuable! More selections to come...

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