Sunnydale Community Library

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

liber - Latin for "book, single, free"

<--- left-hemisphere at work

"The right-hemisphere [of the brain] has an affinity with whatever is living, while the left-hemisphere has an equal affinity for what is mechanical. The left-hemisphere's principal concern is utility. It is interested in what it has made, and in the world as a resource to be used. It is therefore natural that it has a particular affinity for tools, man-made things. References to tools and actions of grasping activate the left-hemisphere even in left-handers, despite the fact that they habitually use the right-hemisphere/left-hand to grasp objects and use tools in daily life."
— McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary

right-hemisphere on watch --->

“We have a tendency to be passive [right-hemisphere] observers rather than active [left-hemisphere] participants. When we become participants, there will be a [left-hemisphere] sense of disassembling a complex, flowing process to focus on the small parts of it. But if we expand our focus to include what is emerging, one of the first changes we notice [in the right-hemisphere] is the bodily sense of being in the midst of something alive in constant motion alongside our [left-hemisphere] lack of clarity and absence of predictability.”
|― Bonnie Badenoch, co-founder of Center for Brain-Wise Living, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering awareness of the brain, mind, and relationships in the service of creating a more awake and compassionate world

The tension is exhilarating.
So don't just stand there watching.
Lend a hand to the superorganism!

Make your left-hemi$phere contribution$ TODAY by check

payable to:
Northfield School of the Liberal Arts

mail to:
SunComLib
c/o Becky Elder
3501 E. 101st. N.
Valley Center, KS 67147

Make your right-hemisphere observations and be amazed

Construction Begins!

August 24 2024

The great neuropsychologists report that we have a divided brain with a right-hemisphere that attends to the larger world around us while the left-hemisphere attends to the immediate work at hand. They pull in seeming opposition ... creating tension ... and are joined only by a single strip called the corpus callosum. But we need to attend to life in both ways to survive and thrive.

After a long wait, the left-hemisphere of the SunComLib body is beginning to function ... the work of building has begun ... our focus is narrow and mechanical.

The workmen are on-site ... needs are timely ... we must not fear the unclear or unpredictable now that labor has begun. We sense something is alive and in motion and we must focus on details to see it through ... task by task ... hour by hour ... then, perhaps, a little rest and a party to celebrate!

We will keep you "abreast of our progress" with periodic, right-hemisphere, big picture reports via this webpage and mailings ... so watch for both ... and pray for us.

We hope you will consider "lending a hand" with unwaivering left-hemisphere support of specific, immediate albeit, perhaps, unclear needs as they arise during this new stage in the development of SunComLib.

together [using right & left hemispheres] we can do this,
Becky Elder, suncomlib@gmail.com