<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/sawzall.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>Gifts have the function of bonding communities together. ... If your entire life is nothing but money transactions, ... then you don't have community because you don't need anybody. -- Charles Eisenstein</p>
<p>My dad just gave me a brand-new sawzall reciprocating saw. Yesterday its maiden voyage helped to repair the rainwater harvesting tanks at the community garden. In the spirit of gifting (in Maori they call it hau), with this “second giving” the sawzall entered into the gift economy.</p>
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