Stooping

She was stooping to take something out of the oven.

In the corner, stooping over a desk, there sat what appeared to be a little girl.

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. New York City has taken this saying to a whole new level with its tradition of “stooping.” When people throw out furniture or other items they no longer need on the city’s sidewalks, others see an opportunity.

Accompanied by key local officials and reporters, the president walked across areas of beach on the Louisiana coast, at one point stooping to pick up tar balls from the surf.

“I declare, my recitation has made you cry, Marilla,” said Anne gaily, stooping over Marilla’s chair to drop a butterfly kiss on that lady’s cheek. “Now, I call that a positive triumph.”

This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.