So, Beth will love that I used her picture here.
The Matter Blog promises: Book reviews, events, poetry and pictures from your favorite non-profit. Brought to you by the staff and volunteers at Wolverine Farm Publishing’s Matter Bookstore.
Sure those things are there, but this is also portrait, a somewhat selective one of the Matter community that I am proud to be a member of.
Recently they put up excerpts from the volunteer handbook. The variety is great. The simple mundane bookstore tasks mixed in with the rare connections that can only exist between a bookseller’s clerk and a bookseeker.
For example:
6/22/09 Beutiful morning! Swept store, filled displays, sold an “irreverent” travel guide to a couple leaving for Paris! Re-separated books on red shelves near stairs into new and used, as Todd requested. Enjoy the lovely day! ~Katherine
The reviews, short and long, are fun.
Most importantly if you don’t know the bookstore funds Matter’s publications so here’s to the hard working volunteers: you make it all happen.
