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These three guys were all scattered on the floor, so I helped them to some nearby seats. Almost immediately after, someone had a nice long look at them but ultimately, they weren't adopted while I was still in the store.

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There's a fine line between storage and stuff we leave someplace, then never look for again. I've tried to make the tough decision, that if it's out of sight and out of mind, I'd like it out of my life as well. It's so easy to start thinking that we'll use it someday, find someone to buy it, or pass it on to the grandkids. But the inevitable answers to those three possibilities are: we won't, no one will, and they won't want it. Last month, I was helping my mother clean out a storage room in the basement of my childhood home. At the back corner, in a box behind a bunch of other boxes, I found a collection of Star Wars figures from my childhood. Things I'd bought about twenty-five years ago. Had no clue I had them, so that meant I wouldn't miss them. Went straight out and sold them online for $100 – to a woman as a gift to her grandson. If I didn't find a buyer, I would've given or donated them. I've got no nostalgia for stuff, no warm glow in being surrounded by unused objects. The great beauty is valuing all that remains, or if not, passing its value to others. Set me free from holding on out of habit.

March 7, 2025

Youngs Cove, Nova Scotia

Year 18, Day 6326 of my daily journal.

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I'm promoting the value of citizen involvement in improving our education system. More importantly - At SXSW a friend took this picture and when he posted it on twitter I was horrified at how obese I have let myself become. So this is a picture to motivate me to change my behaviors that leads to obesity.

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Benched in Southern Ontario.

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This is one of my favorite photos because of the object pictured. The teddy bear was my mother's from when she was a child. It has obviously been worn out and used by her. She passed away last year and I value this teddy bear because it was with her for her entire life.

Credit: Webb Chappell / Shared Value Initiative

The UK household satellite accounts found that the value of informal childcare in 2010 was £343 billion – equivalent to 23% of GDP

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