Bookstore As Sanctuary

 

Even when the weather is sub-freezing, you can cool off at your local bookstore (if you have one), as a kind of sanctuary.

I feel lucky to have The Book Table in my town and they always have something interesting playing in the background. There can be interesting synchronicities: The other day I was browsing through the guitar book, Immortal Axes, and while I was looking at photos of Brian May's guitar, Killer Queen was being played. Then some 60s's soul came on and I was looking at other photo books and it became the soundtrack.

Bookstores are in some ways like art galleries, where you can duck in off a busy street and spend some contemplative time--"cooling off" as one would duck in from the heat to look at cool things.