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There's a song on Bongwater's Double Bummer LP which samples an insurance salesman's pitch: Your livelihood relies on your ability to perform. The truth of that came home to me today when I tweaked my back while trying to ease a 10' stained glass window through a narrow opening. The load wasn't that heavy but something about the way I moved--perhaps a slight twist of the body-- sent stabbing pain through my middle back and I knew I was done for the day. I could still walk, but any lifting or bending hurt. I had never been sidelined from work like this; I felt useless and depressed. Well, it gave me some time to go around photographing the work in progress, which today moved inside into the sanctuary where Kurt and Wade of Earthwise started in on the broad and tall Povey Brothers windows set high in the north wall. Ben, Joel, Rachel, Noel, and Pat of the ReStore pulled the last of the front windows and removed the heavy terra cotta ornaments adorning the facade. I skulked around for a little while longer, then went to Six Arms for some general anaesthetic generously provided by my friend Craig. In the evening I sat in on a ReStore presentation to a Seattle historic preservation group at the Good Shep- herd Center where a few dozen of my short films were used to illustrate the type of work we do. |
