This looks like the perfect place to read a book – because reading is all about relaxing, right?
Yes, reading is about escaping this world and entering a new one through the pages of a book and living that imagined world in your head.
It is relaxing, and yet, how is that so? Your brain has to work at its deepest level to read. Not only does it have decipher the words on the page, but it then has to make a singular meaning for you – the reader. It is a meaning that nobody else can make because nobody has travelled the same path as you have to get to this point. The meaning is so personal, that even if you read the same book again you will create a new meaning because you have changed.
And that’s why I am a teacher librarian.
Books can be your friends, teachers, spiritual guide, drill sergeant and confidante.
I hope that I can give this gift to the students in my care.
This is my university course blog that will help me unravel the course work and inspiration that I have along the way.
So sit back, relax, and let your brain do what it does best – think!