(August 17, 2025) Norman and Margaret Moss share another precious and very timely meditation…

I had a friend who collected books by Richmal Crompton. He was especially keen to find first editions.  Sometimes it tested my patience while I waited for him to rummage through musty piles of books in second-hand bookshops.

It is one thing to love a book because of its contents, but many of us love the smell of a book, the feel of a book, as well as delighting in the pleasure of reading it. Most of us find that somehow books accumulate and yet to part from any one of  them is like losing a friend.

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