Kathe and I live in a big old house with lots of space (although the lookout tower where I write these words remains imaginary), and we have filled entirely too much of that space with things for which we have no current use but which are just too nice to throw away.
Or could we throw some of this stuff away? Or find good homes for it with people who would appreciate how nifty it is? But how would we find such people....
And that was how things stood for us, even after we got hooked up to the Internet, until just recently. Then we discovere Free-Cycle, specifically the Albany-Corvallis chapter, located on Yahoo.
Yesterday we gave away big stacks of National Geographic. Today it was a classic Victorian-style baby carriage (which did in fact carry several known babies, most recently Waldy). The NGs are going to be circulated among home-schooling families (a very suitable fate for them), and the carriage will serve as a display space for a doll collection.
We are sitting around feeling virtuous, or at least like not such complete and utter fools as all that, for hanging onto those things for so long, and wonderfully relieved not to be responsible for them anymore.
2 comments:
You need to tell me at what point I should get you involved with Gideon. I wouldn't be asking if I did not think time may be short.
This has nothing to do with me. You need to decide how important GIDEON is to YOU. If Kathe is too importnat, ok.
It makes no difference to me what you decide other than if I need get you in loop, now or not.
It on you from here out. I trust you won't post this.
You have had time to decide. If the worst happens, I have not kept you from Gideon. I have extended offers to you as Gideon father. My conscience can be clear; I will not feel any guilt about keep Gideon from you.
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