Been at the library a lot this summer holidays, just got back now and thinking about malls and flea markets and libraries

Y'know how you've got that little crow inside you that enjoys the act of Going Somewhere, getting Bags of Shinies, then coming home and examining those shinies, and sometimes you gotta give the crow a treat?

🐹 Man, you're so consumerist-minded, you gotta let go of the -
🦝 Shut up you have a crow as well, anyway as I was saying, the act of going out, getting a large amount of Things and bringing them back satisfies the crow. It gives the crow warm feelings of abundance and security, and the mall and the online shopping apps can feed that crow but at the expense of your wallet.

Daughter just filled up two big canvas bags of library books. Overflowing. Swollen. Our rule is she can take as many as she can carry, and we always end up breaking it. Bulging, heavy sacks of shinies.

If you've got a hole in you that could be filled by getting heavy bags of shinies, the library keeps that crow FED. The crow doesn't know the difference between shopping and borrowing, the heavy bags taste the same, it just cares about Bags Of Stuff, it's the same feeling.

A Little Adventure to Go Somewhere and Acquire Stuff. It fills the same hole.

Except the library ALSO feeds the beast that enjoys REMOVING stacks of things from the house and going "Ahh, that's better, bit more room in here now," because after a couple of weeks you've got to take them back

...and get more