How we give back
Many of us remember the feeling of getting lost in a book — the steady comfort of it, the way stories could hold your attention and open up new worlds.
Not everyone has easy access to that experience.
For some children and families, books are hard to come by. Libraries and bookstores may be far away. Time, transportation, or resources may be limited. And so the simple, absorbing presence of stories — especially fiction — isn’t always available when it could matter most.
One of our long-held beliefs is that access to books shouldn’t depend on circumstance. Quietly and consistently, we support public libraries, literacy programs, and efforts to place books into children’s hands.
With each new Story Club membership, we help give a bookshelf’s worth of books to children and families who need them. The hope is simple: that stories remain a source of comfort, imagination, and steadiness … wherever they’re needed.
Reading is a private thing.
And so are many of the activities that tend to matter most.
The moments we choose for ourselves — reading, walking, tending a garden, quietly making something — don’t often announce their value. They take place beside everything else, and they’re easy to overlook, even by the ones doing them.
But they’re not empty moments.
They’re often the ones that steady us.
Spending time alone with a book has a way of keeping imagination nearby. Not in a dramatic way, but available nonetheless. The way it often was when we were younger, before everything needed to be useful or justified.
None of this needs defending.
Rest doesn’t need permission.
Neither does doing something simply because it feels right to stay with it for a while.
If reading once held that place for you — if it felt familiar, grounding, or quietly absorbing — it’s allowed to still do that. You don’t need to make a case for it. You don’t need to turn it into anything more.
Some things are worth keeping close.
That can be reason enough.
