Hello readers!
It is an elementary truth of capitalism that you must make people pay for what you sell. Yet there is something irresistible about generosity! As Harvard University economist Stephen Marglin writes:
Love is a very special commodity,
An irregular economical oddity.
Bread, when you take, there’s less on the shelf.
Love, when you make it, it grows of itself.*
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Honey Girl Books and Gifts wants to help spread love and fellow-feeling! Thus our offer, which is good until 12/25/17 this year, and will be good again each year in the week before Christmas: to honor and assist people in the caring professions, each year in the week before Christmas we will give away Tranquility Pillows ($150 value) to all K-12 teachers and counselors, nurses, fire or police officers who request one. Contact juliawsea@gmail.com with your request. Thank you for your service to humanity; we could not survive without you!
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* Stephen A. Marglin, The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 18.