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Give Away Day: June 23

It’s like the Great Glebe garage sale but everywhere and free. The first city-wide Give Away Day is on Saturday, June 23 (Rain Date: Sunday, June 24). Why landfill when you can set loose on eager hands?

Rules for setting out the regiftable treasures

• Place items at the curb from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Place stickers or signs on items with the word “FREE”.  Get a sign for your giveaways here.
• Ensure any items that you want to keep are away from your setout treasures or tucked away safely in your garage.
• After 4 p.m., bring any uncollected gems back to your home.
• Common sense prevails, don’t trample gardens, or take, say, cars sitting at curb. Watch for the sign. Health Canada advises that used children’s items from walkers and playpens to toys should not be placed out at the curb.
• Unfound treasures can be donated to charitable organizations.
• Consider offering your uncollected gems on a local Freecycle group or keep the circle of goods going thru usedottawa.com.

Food for Thought: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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Poetry Book Link: Barry Dempster’s The Burning Alphabet with its preoccupying irritations turned to humorous and surreal slants is going on my buying list.

Poetry Link: End Shelf Books has a free pdf called All Architecture by Stuart Greenhouse. It’s a bit melancholic, towards anomie, mostly leashed in parks but aching to sniff for beauty and lyrical lopes. Samples? from page 5:

the full grass is a field of trees stifled.
The grackle begins to uncomplete the sky” or in Homecoming, p. 11

“we are bodiless,
we are walking ashore,

sand soft as prayer under our toenails,

Answer: A search string (which will not reoccur, but anyhew) asked “why do cats put a kernal of food in their water bowl?” I’ve never seen her do it, only the kernel. My guess is: drinking water is also used as mouthwash. Horses rinse their mouths like that, why not cats with all the cleaning they do with their tongues.

Word Link: Podictionary is an etymology each episode.

Link: KIVA does microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Quote: “If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.” — Nicol Williamson