Although it sometimes connotes sadness and solitude, the Willow Tree, with its quiet beauty, often found beside tranquil streams and limpid ponds, can still inspire reflection and rejuvenation beneath its sheltering canopy of branches and leaves.

A bookstore can offer a respite and intellectual sanctuary from a hectic world. Here, then, beneath the bower of the written word, one can pursue knowledge, entertainment or enlightenment, far from the cares of ordinary life. This place of refuge exists, as it always has, beneath the sheltering Willow of the discriminating mind.