Summer Reading Begins!

Power Your Mind: READ!

This year's Summer Read is one program for all ages! Join online or at the library, read and win prizes!

SIGN UP beginning June 1st at any neighborhood San Francisco Public Library or bookmobile or online from home by visiting sfpl.org. Sign up your whole family or group but please note that each person may only sign up once.

VISIT YOUR LIBRARY often to check out books and other materials and to attend the many programs and events for all ages.

READ! Record the time you spend reading on your online record or at your library. There will be one grand prize for children who read for 10 hours; teens who read for 30 hours and adults who read for 40 hours. And everybody who reads for 40 hours from June 1 to July 31 has a chance to enter our citywide Super Raffle!

For more information, ask your librarians or visit the Summer Reading page on sfpl.org.

Library closed on Monday, May 31, 2011, for Memorial Day

Please note that the Glen Park Branch and all San Francisco Public Libraries will be closed on Monday, May 31, 2011, for Memorial Day.

Lost Friends

      ©    Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

       ©    If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

    ©    Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod

    ©    Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

    ©    Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

    ©    A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

    ©    The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

    ©    The disappointment of losing is huge.

    ©    While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

    ©    I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me

    ©    He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

    ©    I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

    ©    Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him

    ©    Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.