Barely Read Books are dealers of rare and second hand books. Located at 18 The Green in the Kent town of Westerham, United Kingdom. (photo by Matt Wakeman)
Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.
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