G’day, good denizens of Moab! Mitä kuuluu? (That’s “How are you?” in Finnish.) I’m doing fairly properly, although I appear to have everlasting nap-inducing literary jet lag. Why, you would possibly ask? Because you beautiful library patrons had me travelling continuous this summer time for Grand County Public Library’s 3rd annual “How Far Can Cosmo Go?” problem!
Library patrons took me (or quite, a bookmark that includes my incredible feline face) to 11 completely different states, and even, as you’ll have guessed from my greeting, all the best way to Australia and Finland! I traveled broadly within the literary realm as properly, dabbling within the afterlife with The Egyptian Book of the Dead, ambling above the artic circle in Elin Anna Labba’s The Home of the Drowned, traipsing by way of Tuscany in Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco, and sauntering by way of house in Aliette de Bodard’s A Fire Born of Exile.
This 12 months, I actually took the “trot” in globetrotting actually by cheering at horse races in Iowa, enjoyable at Grandma’s horse farm in Pennsylvania, and watching wonderful equine demonstrations at Breyerfest in Kentucky. You would possibly even catch me saying neigh as a substitute of meow one in all lately!
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I additionally explored many mountains and lakes within the west, and even helped catch a 20-inch trout. What a feast! And would you imagine it? I visited the northernmost driveable level within the U.S. on the Beaufort Sea in Alaska. That’s the farthest north I’ve ever been in my travels, even farther north than my great journey to Iceland final 12 months.
Library ambassador that I’m, I made pals with a number of felines alongside the best way, after all, together with Lucy, near house, and a tuxedo mini-me Plumlee all the best way up in Maine. Plumlee took me to Portland Head Light, Maine’s oldest lighthouse and inspiration for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Lighthouse.” As I shut out one other wonderful summer time, I’d prefer to quote this poem, grateful for everybody who lent me their adventures, bridging continents and guide covers “to bring man nearer unto man!” (And to deliver cat nearer unto cat!) Many thanks for shining a lightweight, fellow vacationers! Until subsequent time, Cosmo the Library Cat is signing off.