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Date: | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:37:50 -0100 |
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Rudy,
There may have been drifting and gravitation but I think there was also
a whole lot of misfit persistence to keep going in a direction that all
surrounding influences, particulalry educational, kept saying did not
exist. I distinctly remember when I was a Boy Scout walking down a
stoney crickbed my telling a young Cornell professor Assistant Scout
Master that I wanted to spend my life playing with stones and his
telling me that nobody in the whole world does that. I also remember
meeting a drunk who was panhandling and my spending a bit of time
talking with him and his telling me that someday I would wander around
telling people how to fix their old buildings. For whatever reason I did
not believe either of them. I am not sure if it is by inheritance but
one grandfather was a master finish carpenter, the other an electrician,
and my mother first taught me to build with stone. So there, Rowdy....
let's bump shoulders on our fall forward!
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Rudy Christian wrote:
> It's hard for me to find peers in the trades side of my social complex
> that came to their work by inheritance. Rather we seem to have gone
> adrift at some point and gravitated to it. Clearly from that
> perspective someone who came to it through academic rigor must somehow
> be different...or better...or something.
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