Oddbean new post about login | logout @b99e1048 In a similar way, I gave my son the moon when he was a toddler. I don't think he remembers. I hope not. I might need it in my old age. Regarding head-libraries, I often have dreams about exploring giant libraries or bookstores and finding armloads of WONDERFUL books! Maybe this is from one of them.
@fb2b7c61 Lovely! I also have a dream-library, though by some trick of nostalgia, mine is often a bookmobile, which is a thing I loved as a young girl in Fargo. Your gift to your son reminds me of a poem about a nightlight I used to live in when my daughter was young, from the book Household Tales of Moon and Water by Nancy Willard, which ends, "It is time to turn on the moon./It is time to live by a different light." (Someone has the full poem posted here: https://tinyurl.com/bdzfmtu6 )
@b99e1048 Thanks! That's beautiful!