Berne Library Notes for Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Kaleidoscope of Wishes
By SLS
Hi there, Friends of the Berne Library,
Thanks for all your help.
Bringing ideas to living color
Spreads joy that’s deeply felt.
Wishing you piles of active members
And much fun along the way.
Hi there, Library Trustees,
Thanks for volunteering.
Your meetings might be long
But you’re here month after month.
Wishing you smooth sailing
As you paddle through the moats.
Hi there, Library visitors,
Thank you for your presence.
Your smiling eyes
Bring grand rewards
Every time you step inside.
Wishing success in all your journeys
Round the library shelves and more.
Hi there, Altamont Enterprise,
Thanks for printing library news.
Our library sure appreciates
Sharing our pictures too.
Wishing you the best in life
In all you try to do.
Hi there, Berne community,
Thanks for your support.
Kudos for help creating
Our Berne Public Library.
Wishing you joy of learning
And engaging with your friends
Finding wealths of history
In our Helderberg Mountain Wonderland.
Unexpectedness
The Word of the Month Club members, ensconced in their favorite pursuit, are happily reading from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Roxanne yells out “Status quo.”
Cindy Leigh responds, “Doing things the way they’re always done. Following the same trail. Folding into the box.”
Eric bounces “Anti-status quo.”
And that’s how they came up with January 2022’s word of the month: Unexpectedness.
Deciding to go all in to experience unexpectedness in their own unique way, ideas spouted like lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. Whether purposely engaging in a solo artist date, having a root-beer float for breakfast, saying “yes” to an invitation normally eliciting a “no,” or attending the library’s Community Conversation about Cannabis, unexpectedness is on the radar and the Word of the Month Club is excited to give it a go.
Coming up
— Hilltown Conversations: “Let’s Talk About Cannabis!” on Tuesday, Jan. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. Library community room or virtual link. Snacks will be available, cannabis will not. Please register; and
— Friends of the Berne Library: Join the friends on Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. On the discussion board, the Seventh Annual Juried Photography Exhibit.
2021 Remembrances
It was a year. Changes ebbed and flowed. Animal visits enlivened outdoor spaces with chickens, goats, sheeps, pigs, leapin’ lizards, turtles, snakes. Reading challenges for tots, adults, and everything in between.
It was a year. Books read, reviews shared, author visits dialed in. Journeys On the Page, Book Club, Knit Wit mingles. Adults coloring night. Comic-book illustrator teaching tips to the crowd.
It was a year. Slime, blobfish, service animals for the blind, diabetic alert dogs. Artists on the wall. Flowers in the garden. Pumpkin-carving. Nature-journaling. Music in the Park. StoryWalks in Berne and Knox, library-sponsored walks. Online Photo contest, Sock Tree, Community Conversations. Word of the Month club teasings.
What’s next? The sky’s the limit with unexpectedness heading your way.
Best wishes for a fantabulous brand new year.