What I Do
Sometimes. When I feel like it. When I’m not doing something else.
I’ve had a few of you contact me by email requesting more info about myself. I don’t really want my background to influence what you all think or comment about these posts but I did recently find these images which aren’t too far off.
Make of them what you will – I wish my work environment was closer to this.
Still inscrutable.
A face forms over time as I read everyone’s posts. Jean looks like one of my great aunts due to the goodness in her heart. Ghost is a slightly grumpier (not much) version of me, also physically fit but with a full head of hair, and a decade my senior. Casey posts his picture, so we have that.
Hope I measure up, SK.
I love this. Mystery man. Like the Wizard behind the curtain.
Steampunk, London, 1890’s.
Time has no meaning.
He lives to work, works to live.
To him it doesn’t seem like work at all.
It’s what he does.
There are a lot of us.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependence back again into bondage.”
Penned by Professor Alexander Fraser Tyler over 250 years ago while we were still a British Colony.
“The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic”
La plus ca change la plus c’est la meme…
Working ground to plant next year’s crop. That tractor is over 40 years old.
Back when they were still built right.