Reading between the lines part three it’s a comic but not a comedian plus a bonus rhyme

 Time its value folks debate

Time in days we track by date

Time goes fast when we are late

Time move slow  when we must wait

Time so cherished  when life’s’s great

Time used well we celebrate

Timeshall pass and seal your fate

Time too short to waste on hate

Tick Tock  

So the beginning of this is a literary appetizer I shared  it on some other social media a couple days ago, however  I wrote it for all the readers  that dare consume my idle ramblings.    Okay now pack to the “library  “reading” arena. Part 3

If you’ve been reading along and remember if you don’t read along the teacher might skip the person in front. Of. You or they may pull the old “I have to use the bathroom” ploy  and thus you’ll have to read aloud today and not tomorrow.  Oh come on now don’t tell me. You weren’t one of those people who tried to guess just when your turn would come or  at the very least you knew the kids who had a hard time reading and felt crappy for them.   So anyway if you’ve been reading along you know we have been chatting up the Library of Congress a bit.  I thought for now we could put a bookmark. In the discussion by giving a nod to one of the least respected  sections  in most libraries  including the good old loc.  The comic book section.   

Now you might think that geeky  Melvin  who lived down the block and always wore black socks with his shorts had a big comic book collection, but alas …. The goood old Library. Of congress holds the world’s largest publicly held  collection of comics.  We’re talking issues from more than  12,000 different comic series and a total of over 140,000 unique issues.  Since these issues have not been graded for quality and there is no plan to ever sell them at auction, it is hard to estimate the value of this collection but it goes  far beyond  the dime a piece that many of these gems have marked on the cover and probably  even well beyond the $4.00 each that most of these pint-sized paperbacks sell for now.  

So how many of these comic books. Do I own?  How many have I ever owned?  Why does the library of Congress own them?  

Well I own zero and have never owned any.  It would have been fun to be in the room where it happened—no not the Hamilton song—the room where somebody said…yep the Library of Congress needs to have comics.  Okay, maybe  many of our lawmakers can only digest short books with lots of pictures written for junior high boys?   I could see that given some of the other things congress folks have done.   

Now what’s the “Seeking Peace and Joy”. Point?

Like so many of you books have been and will always be  an important part of how I engage in learning and no one can read. Every  book of any type let alone every book of every type.  I would hazard a guess that there are some morals to the stories in comics and that they spark the imagination of some people…. If so, then they are the fuel. For thought that runs some mental engines and for that I salute the 1938 introduction of truth justice and the American Way… Imagine what one word  could mean… What if the saying were “truth, justice,  “OR” the American way?   What if the Man of Steel was the Man of Plastic and was stickier than a speeding taxi?   Anyway…. We have this Library of Congress and you can use it to answer questions and raise some others.  Seeking Peace and Joy is a trip through the learning library of life and every library. Has its place.   The only thing to do now is leave you with my favorite quote. About books and reading    

According. To Groucho Marx….

Outside of a dog a book is man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read…

Live and Learn —reverse and repeat