{"id":548,"date":"2026-02-26T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:04:31","slug":"the-universe-unfolds-exactly-as-it-should-max-ehrman-desiderata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;the universe unfolds exactly as it should&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Max Ehrman, Desiderata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cricut in the Makerspace is down, but more importantly, that&#8217;s totally fine.<\/p>\n<p>Because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the universe unfolds exactly as it should,&#8221; (-Max Ehrmann, Desiderata)<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, we received a large donation from a regular patron- a person who believes in the library and the things we hope to provide for our community.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, it was discovered that our Cricut machine was damaged and out of commission.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been impossible to order a replacement today without the donation that just happened to arrive on Tuesday, and it&#8217;s impossible for me to believe these are only isolated incidents.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when things seem tight, I get nervous, but something in the back of my mind always tells me not to fret too, much, because somehow, someway, it will be taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what you believe, but I believe that if there is a higher power, we experience it primarily through the kindness we give and receive. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-551\" src=\"http:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Blue-Floral-Thank-You-Instagram-Post-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-552\" src=\"http:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/11487-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cricut in the Makerspace is down, but more importantly, that&#8217;s totally fine. Because&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;the universe unfolds exactly as it should,&#8221; (-Max Ehrmann, Desiderata) On Tuesday, we received a large donation from a regular patron- a person who believes in the library and the things we hope to provide for our community. On Wednesday, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-library","category-notes-from-the-director","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}