Sister’s Uptown Bookstore

This is a great bookstore and cultural center, too. I attended a terrific meditation workshop there last night and was impressed with the selection of books, the beautiful African art, the café, and the space itself, which is dedicated to sharing, performing, affirming, and supporting the community. All this love is waiting — it would be great if the community fully reciprocated!

«Bookstore» fails to relate what this establishment actually is. Sure they sell books, host events, and everything a bookstore is known to do but they are are a mission driven, community resource. The slogan «Knowledge is Key» says it all!

Now this is a community bookstore. A variety of great books popped into a little spot, complete with café, performance space, and some amazing events. This is one of those places, and if you come in a good person, with an open heart and your head in the right place, I think you can just feel the love.
It’s a sensation. This kind of love, it’s a certain kind of feeling. I have walked through here so many times yearning for this book or that: poetry, children’s books, novels, history, philosophy. And I’ve approached the door to exit with a mind racing, racing, racing with inspiration. Jotting down notes for future poems on napkins. And feeling the love.
This is a community bookstore. It is a space. It is evidence that communities can develop for the people who already live there, not by displacing them. That communities only develop when the people in them, who are there and have been there, develop. Have the tools to develop. And a bookstore, Sister’s Uptown Bookstore is a tool to develop. And a heart to keep the blood pumping and the love flowing.
A love letter.