Sunnydale Community Library

1. Becky [before she fell to the earth] was a wonderful enigma to most of us. We marveled at her ability to see so much in so little. She was, so we thought, either the greatest of adventurers or the most delightful of fools. But either way, she was as dear to us as BOTH Cordelia AND his fool were to Shakespeare's King Lear.

2. Yet hidden from most of us was the thought that Becky was merely a seed who held — within her body, mind and spirit — a veritable "bouquet" of life forces being knit together by unseen hands until the day they could finally be revealed for all to see and begin to grow on their own. Psalm 139 comes to mind, especially verses 13-16.

3. And, perhaps, what really happened that day as Becky spoke with such passion to the Pachyderm Club was that the seed within her touched the ground and sprouted and began to grow outside and apart from Becky. This shocked her — and all the rest of us — in ways that we do not wish to recall much less relive. John 12:24

4. But as the trauma abates, something remarkable is occuring. Becky's long term vision and strategy are not only persisting but becoming clearer and more widely shared with each passing day. Many of us are finally beginning to really believe that what Becky "saw" was not an isolated fragment of her own imagining but a pan-organic glimpse of who we really
   ARE ... Agri-culturalists, Readers & Educators ... who Live, Learn & Teach.

5. And so, we proceed with — and hope you too will feel — a renewed sense of confidence that the work of Sunnydale Community Library is just beginning and shall, God willing, continue to progress and flourish in ways we can only imagine. Our assignment, as Hamlet would remind us, is quite simply to be READY ... for "there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow".

6. Thanks for your past faith and we eagerly look forward to your future particiption. 

--- from everyone at Sunnydale Community Library