Hello and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I am Frank.

And I'm Rhonda.

And here we are. How are you, Rhonda?

I'm pretty good. You know, we had, I guess this is our second snowstorm of the winter.

So, I don't know. It's kind of, I mean, I know it's a little treacherous out there,

but I feel like it's just nice to actually see the snow. Yeah, I mean, you know, snow and

all that's happening, I feel like, alternately like, desolate, joyful, disgusted over it, under it, next to it. I don't know what I'm feeling. I'm

feeling a lot of things, but the snow is pretty. It really was. It's just like more reasons to

keep closing, but say la vie. I know, but we'll get through it it won't last long the thing about snow it's

it's fleeting it never really lasts that long exactly i mean that's that's the thing there's

nothing else to say but things don't stay the same for long we will get through all of it and we

will triumph period exactly we will triumph, period.

Exactly.

We will triumph.

Exactly.

So, we're going to look up.

Huh?

So that's a good reason to be helpful, right?

Good.

We'll get through everything.

Well, I have another reason to be hopeful.

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