KIOSK store in NYC

…is a smart little store, a highly curated museum of modest global goods (my sister Emily turned me on to it) that is actually run by humans, with  everything they do having a real human voice and touch – which is hidden away on an upper floor of a Soho loft building on Spring Street selling, among many other things, Swedish nut creme,  German colored chalk, Italian metal tape dispensers, British door wedges, Norwegian cheese slicers, Swedish felt shoe inserts, and a book about crying, which is described on their website thusly:

“Weeping” / $7.00 / 4″ x 5.5″ / Paper / USA / CRYING ABOUT NATURE… Soon we won’t even have much to cry about as nature will be gone. Thoreau said boxing nature into parks was not a nature for him nor a nature for any man. Michael Kim’s first book is devoted to newspaper clippings of people crying. When I feel like crying I go to this book and either cry or I stop my whining. Nature can’t cry for itself, we all have to cry about it a little.

(website)