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… And junkies, and ex-junkies, and hobos, and traveling folk, and dropouts, and punks, and hipsters, and hippies, and police… How great is that?? Love the blog especially, seeing all the characters and their book choices…

And this short doco is interesting (music’s a bit cheesy), especially the guy who says “I don’t wanna know any more shit, I need to let my doing catch up with my knowing” - puts the books in perspective, on a personal level.. Each person’s relationship to their own knowing and doing is different, unique, important.

“One of the most innovative new initiatives comes from the City Centre Library in Surrey, British Columbia, which is scheduled to open next month. Realizing that bound volumes are far from the only source of knowledge, librarians in Surrey will also lend out “living books”—in other words, people. Staff will maintain a list of local residents who have volunteered to share their knowledge of any topic, and other library patrons can make appointments for 30-45-minute conversations.”

This is cool. Knowledge sharing (orally) AND physical face-to-face networking.

““It’s a beautiful idea,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a neighbor’s tree or a vacant lot or a foreclosure or whatever. It’s you and that fruit tree right at that precise moment when the fruit is ready and you need to make something happen.”

The point, she and other urban fruit foragers say, is to keep food from going to waste. Ms. Callahan, who works for the Carter Center and lived in Africa for eight years, has seen true hunger and cannot bear to watch food rot.”