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Our local library is a great resource, not in the way you might expect it to be either. We started a Wraps with Love charity group there which still meets every month and it is a wonderful place for students and people to while away a few minutes or hours. Yesterday while purchasing the books above from their sale shelf for one dollar each the librarian asked how my son’s science fiction book group was going.

I told him it had folded after almost two years as the tiny amount of people coming regularly was not enough to sustain the amount of work my son put into it. Also for private reasons which I cannot disclose it became too much for him to manage. One of the reasons it was particularly difficult I feel is that so many science fiction readers are men and a large proportion of those men are not skilled socially so it became a chore rather than a pleasure for us in the end. The librarian thought that the amount of time it lasted was quite good and said he felt confident that if Christopher wanted to do it through the library that he would get more people and that he would have the support of the young peoples liaison officer also Chris, which could make all the difference.

I must say that I was concerned when he started the bookgroup that he would be treated inconsiderately by the people there at times…he is young and so many of them are my age….apart from a few incidents though I think it was a positive experience although his opinions he felt were disregarded at times, but never with any malice, more condescension. So I am now pondering whether to encourage him to go through with the library as a site for his bookclub.

You see we were a little taken aback before when he was asked to get a police check before he could run anything there…whereas  I and the other woman who started Wraps with Love did not have to have one…thought that was discriminatory against men and especially young men. He said it was the beard! I see their point with children around but they have a policy of no child under 12 allowed without an adult and the book group would be on Thursday evenings so its unlikely any small children would be there anyway.

I am also concerned at anything that may bring him unnecessary conflict, there is enough in life without going looking for more and as our recent online difficulties showed, some people can be quite malicious when theirs or their friends opinions or actions or authority are questioned. Sometimes I wonder with my son…should I have brought him up with the selfish attitudes which were prevalent throughout his schooling and now rife through so much of society?  Maybe he would have had an easier path but it was never in him…he has always been CJ the Lionheart.…defender of the weak and bullied and defenseless… with that social conscience though comes a  voice which must be heard and as a mother I both fear and am absurdly proud of the consequences of expressing that voice.

Forgive me my ramblings here…merely thinking with my fingers…good job I have Philosophy as a category.