We’re fairly well-known in the neighbourhood for hosting the 27th St. Book box in front of our house. The other day, somebody made the generous gesture of leaving a heaping big bag of books on our porch. Given that the book box is more or less self-maintaining – books come in, books go out, I’m not sure what is expected of us.

Maybe the idea is that we store these books until by chance the book box becomes depleted, and then re-up  from the bag.  The problem is that the book box rarely becomes depleted. Some people take books and leave books. Some just take books. Others just drop books. It all works out to a fairly full box most of the time.

Unfortunately, we have plenty enough stuff cluttering the house without storing an extra bag of books. I rebuilt the book box this season so it will hold more, but I don’t plan to add a second box. Unfortunately I think I’m going to end up driving this bag of books over to the Goodwill and donating them there.  I don’t think that’s what the person who dropped them off had in mind.  Sorry about that. We appreciate the gesture, but we just can’t use them.