A Love Letter to Libraries

Street Smart Naturalist · Mar 12, 2026 · 6m

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure to be part of the King County Library System’s annual fundraising event: Literary Lions. The theme of the event was Love Letters to libraries. If it’s okay, I’d like to share my Love Letter.

To all the libraries and librarians I have known:

Thanks for the memories.

To Ms. Bass, who helped me find books at the Henry Branch on Capitol Hill when I was a wee lad. She lived up the block from us, and I thought it was darned cool to have such a luminary in our neighborhood.

To my college library, where I found good books to read, assigned books that I could…