Month November 2020

Thrift Store Death Spiral III

Thrift Store Death Spiral – Three The standard approach to dealing with problems and errors in a system is mitigation. We mitigate the probable cost of crime by employing police, and by doing things like supplying the poor with welfare…

Bounce, Rock, Roller Skate

There’s a term I’ve come to really understand in the past few years, ‘living memory.’ It’s a term that includes us in a group as individuals and as group members. You might define it as social identity. Memory is an…

Thrift Store Death Spiral II

Thrift Store Death Spiral – Two As a result of the time I spent in thrift store book sections, I found some real treasures. Those, I remember happily, were mainly passed along as gifts to friends. I remember with particular…

Thrift Store Death Spiral I

Thrift Store Death Spiral – One As someone who moved away from home early I often had to find ways to stretch my funds. It wasn’t an entirely unfamiliar situation. At that time, which was before Wal-Mart, before Amazon, and…