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Creative placemaking brings together partners from public, private, non-profit, and community sectors to strategically shape the physical and social character of a public space through arts and cultural activities that encourage public discourse, neighborhood development, community health and safety, social justice, economic growth, environmental sustainability, civic pride, and an authentic “sense of place.” [1]

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For 90 years or more a book sat deep in the stacks of the Wilbour Library of Egyptology concealing a secret within its pages. The book was Gartenpflanzen im alten Ägypten: ägyptologische studien von Ludwig Keimer (1924) or “Garden Plants of Ancient Egypt”. Pressed between the pages was a delicate lotus plant with the purple color still visible on the tips of the blossom.

What a beautiful surprise just as spring is breaking all over Brooklyn! I wondered how far this fragile flower had travelled—perhaps all the way from Egypt? It was a hopeful discovery at the end of a hard winter season. It was also fitting that the subject was ancient Egypt and the lotus. The lotus plant was a symbol in ancient Egyptian art of the sun, creation, and rebirth. The beauty of these blooms is captured in another one of the treasures of the Wilbour Library, Illustrations of the lotus of antiquity by R. Duppa (1813).

I was reminded of Pablo Neruda who once said that “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” Winter cannot stay—and whatever dark forces attempt to keep life under-wraps or underground—spring surges ahead, always.

Posted by Roberta Munoz

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Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like. So just watch out for librarians, okay?

Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel (via petit-branch-library)

I have always loved this podcast, but then I learned what Cecil thinks of librarians, and somehow now I love it even more.

I want to be the kind of librarian that Cecil fears? I think?

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