National Family Literacy Day

Read to someone today.

Or ask them to read to you.

Or takes turns reading aloud. (Click on the logo for more ideas.)

I know this is geared toward children, but adults can read to each other, too.

We read Burton Raffel's translation of Beowulf aloud a few years ago. The poem and the story were very powerful. And we weren't required to do it for a class, either. I'm guessing that except for the obvious creature comforts that we enjoy, listening to the story and the effect it had on us was not too unlike what it was like around an evening bonfire.

You could read Dr. Seuss to each other. You know you're supposed to have at least one volume in your home library.

I like to randomly open to a page of Being and Time by Heidegger (or any philosophy or science book) and read a paragraph and then we try to decipher what the author meant. We never figure it out, but we learn a few things and the importance of understanding terms. (I know, I know, this isn't what normally passes for fun in our household.)

If you're going to sit around on the sofa tonight, then read a little, at least for today.