Those of us who have already been through that celebration know that turning 50 means having been through a lot. For this reason, often we tend to look at the past with nostalgia; reviewing it sometimes even makes us want to go back to the point where we feel that something failed and then change our history. Fortunately, this is not the case with our Network.
What is the case is that Rural Libraries does not turn away when it needs to change something or improve it: we are instead enlivened and revived, we regenerate and rebuild with our own history. In the Network we review “everything we were to know who we want to continue being”, as Alfredo says.
They have been 50 years of tireless walking for many, and in so many places, of meeting people and making them family. To bring books and hope, to read and share the wisdom that is gathered from one town to take it to other towns.
50 years where we continue building, encouraging processes; sometimes reviewing what was done, inventing and reinventing, adapting to changes, resources, and emerging needs.
And never backing down; if anything, maybe resting a bit to breathe, take a new impulse and start the walk again.
The Network turns 50, with quarantine, with a pandemic, but also with force and with vision.
Here we continue, here we are.
