Long Walks & Lending Libraries

I started reading & getting into fiction & biographies after I graduated from college.  It was a freedom I never knew in school, when I was confined reading chapters from business textbooks.  Novels & non-fiction were like forbidden fruit that I was discovering for the first time & from 2006 on I read books one after another.

That was until 2015, the year of eight weddings & taking on more Mad Munch gigs after work that I kind of forgot about my down time hobbie.  But when we quit our jobs & became full-time Cheezer purveyors, I made a point of getting back into books.

With our mornings now free, Kate & I started going on walks.  We went together a few times, but discovered that it was a great hour away from each other.  A great time to clear your mind & get the creative juices flowing.

I'd always been an adamant cyclist- that word sounds funny to me, though- cyclist.  I always go with bike rider, instead.  But, this was the first time I began alternating with walks.  

It became a daily occurence I found that OB is a great place to walk around.  There's the beach, the tidepools, the cliffs, the pocket parks & if you go up the hill you're rewarded with some great houses & architecture.

And, also all of the "Free Little Libraries."  Each of the little book houses constructed out of different materials on top of a post & made to share the gift of knowledge to anyone who passes by.  I began collecting books- fiction, non-fiction, reference, how-to, self-help & even some business books.

One after another, I found some great material.  Soon, I got into the self-help genre for the first time & created a routine for the days & weeks ahead.  

I turned thirty-three that spring & I started to figure out what I was really capable of & what really mattered most.  Mad Munch was no longer a side hustle but an all-in endeavor that kept us pushing each other to make it the best it could be.  

I credit a lot of that new found ambition & confidence to the selflessness of our OB community & those who put their old books into lending libraries.  Thanks for passing on the torch of knowledge.