Public libraries in Winchester: A history of growth, expansion, and movement

Long before cal­en­dars were inked and before clocks began telling humans when to wake, there was a hush that came each year, a long exhale of frost and dark­ness. The rivers stiff­ened. The seeds slept. Even hope seemed to curl in on itself. And in that still­ness walked Oestre, the Dawn-Bringer of the North. 

Social media is filled with mean com­ments and hurt­ful posts. People seem to feel empow­ered to behave in the most awful ways when sit­ting behind a phone, tablet, or com­put­er screen. A harm­less or well-inten­tioned post or news sto­ry is met with long strings of real­ly antag­o­nis­tic, cru­el com­ments. These com­ments usu­al­ly don’t add any­thing to the con­ver­sa­tion, or, when they do con­tribute to the con­ver­sa­tion, do so in a way that just hurts feel­ings and caus­es pain. When chal­lenged on this unkind­ness, the most com­mon respons­es seem to be in defense of “doing what I want” and “keep­ing it...