A Book Is Not A Lifebelt

As the statue of this man surely proves. I am unsure even that this reader
is where facebook says he in, somewhere in Finland. But books,
and being widely read, is a reassuuring lifebelt for a better life
in a world all at sea, if not awash, with language, particu;arly
 when our media shares with us about how the unread we are
and unready to know how to act before the stormsof poor planning
that can asssail them, where they get as careless with their own words
as they get with lives of the people who depend on them.