X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2023%2Fstart-over.md;h=545612bb2a5e123921af632904b8a33b8ee7161c;hp=6c5f44df4b4b70bdeb815176ba9d993216d37a7e;hb=49b6fc4353d124ef80b83b5d2cbd098a6bb7e17e;hpb=cf7b2f7670af28e5af4c488d49c5eb37b2344546 diff --git a/content/2023/start-over.md b/content/2023/start-over.md index 6c5f44d..545612b 100644 --- a/content/2023/start-over.md +++ b/content/2023/start-over.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ I'm happy. I have a lot of writing to do. In my old neighborhood in the part of Berkeley that's secretly Oakland (the city limits forming a penninsula just around my apartment), there used to be a "free store" on the corner—shelves for people to leave unwanted consumer goods and to take them to a good home. It stopped being a thing shortly before I left, due to some combination of adverse attention from city municipal code inspectors, [and a fire](https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/07/21/south-berkeley-free-store-destroyed-by-fire). -There was a butcher-paper sign on the fence with a pen on a string, asking community members to write a note on what the free store meant to them. +In memoriam, there was a butcher-paper sign on the fence with a pen on a string, asking community members to write a note on what the free store had meant to them. One of the messages read: