September 3, 2018

Feeling better today, so pleased to present TWO notes of gratefulness in one post:

1. I was grateful to see a Mission Impossible movie (the latest) for the first time, in a local theater. Wow, wow, wow, what an amazing, almost non-stop thrill ride.
2. AND I was very grateful to experience my neighborhood's Little Free Library for the first time.

My understanding is Little Free Libraries basically function as a point for exchanging of books, basically take a book, leave a book (or return a book taken previously.)

This one in Serra Mesa is located on a the outside of residential fence, on a sidewalk, on Mission Village Drive just before it intersects with Admiral Avenue. This Google Street View image was taken before the Library was installed: https://goo.gl/maps/2GV9fE6aBdo

I especially like the location because it is very near a middle school, and students going to the school and going home walk right by it. Hopefully it gets lots of visits from them!

So, I stopped by this morning to take photos and see if I could make an exchange. Here is a front view of the structure:

There is actually a tiny live, planted garden of succulents on the roof of the structure. Here is part of it:

And lastly, here is the interior before I start rummaging around:

I did make an exchange. I left a science fiction story collection I had not re-read in some time:

And I took this book, by restaurant critic and food writer Alan Richman. I've started it and am enjoying it: