26 Things #11 - Bind

Keeping up with the 26 Things theme from yesterday, today I tackled #11 - Bind. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this one at first, but then remembered the wonderful old books that we have from Jim's mother's home. These books are far too fragile to be read or handled much, but we have them on a shelf in our living room, and I love having them there. Books are extraordinary to me. Not only for the stories held within their pages, but also for the stories of their own "lives," if you will. Some of these books are over 100 years old. Can you imagine how many homes they've been kept in, how many hands that have held them? I think they're fascinating. And to look at how relatively well most of them have held up for all this time, well, whoever bound them knew what they were doing. So OK, I've taken a little liberty with the "bind" term, and changed it to "binding" and "bound." But I think I've captured the idea.