A quote: “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’ll start with a story …

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He could count every muscle in his body by each separate pain. He had been here two months now and every night he fell into his cot wondering when it would stop hurting.

They were all being driven, learning skills eschewed by finer people. But enough of his age were alarmed, then intrigued with forgotten knowledge that would survive when modernity did not.

Were these old men and women who taught them or did the seriousness of what they taught make them “The Elders”? So much to re-learn, so little time.

The cabin was finished. Now to learn furniture making.

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Now, it’s your turn.
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