“She has wings and I do not. Have you known jealousy? That ache which seems so sweet, but pries with its little blades. The kiss is the keenest dagger.”
“Do you wish you hadn’t kissed her?”
“Would my life have been easier? I’d have pottered around my library perfectly contented till I died. But my heart would have never started beating. I can’t wish myself unborn. Now I am in the world and there are so steps backward, as I have learned on the journey.”
Solya nodded. “The first step onto a tightrope must carry you to the other side. There is no turning back.”
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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