Where are the answers?

My family kept them on the top shelf in the dining room. It was also an office, at times a nursery, and where the piano was. I don’t know where we got them from, but I remember them seeing them as a child sitting up on the top shelf, all neatly arranged. Sometimes I would get them down just to flip through and see what I could learn. The encyclopedias were source of knowledge, wisdom, and entertainment for an introverted kid like me. I don’t know if they were a particularly good set, but they were ours. My siblings and I used them for homework sometimes, or just as heavy books to press leaves in. If there was a question that we didn’t know the answer to, we could find it in there. It’s helpful to know where the answers are. As a child we believe our parents have most of the answers. As we grow up we learn they don’t, and so we begin to look elsewhere. Somewhere along the way my family traded our encyclopedias for a computer. More likely we traded them for an