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Thursday |
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Sometimes I
wonder what I'm doing with my life. I've been
thinking this same thought for 20 years, maybe
longer. Had a couple of carpentry jobs get postponed this week, but as luck would have it my neighbor needed a hand with his landscaping business, so I became reacquainted with shovels of every size and purpose. Nice day for it and the morning alone threatened to ruin me. The postures are awkward and the burdens heavy. Hard as it was I still felt lucky compared to the billions of people in the world who work harder and longer for less. At day's end I was so sweaty, sullied, and stinky I didn't feel fit for the bus, so I opted for Car2Go. But with the viaduct closed for ongoing Bertha fiasco, traffic was locked up. What should have taken 10 minutes or less stretched to half an hour. But the upside was I caught a great segment on Democracy Now about the satisfac- tion of labor. And it was true! Sore and exhausted as I was, I also felt strangely elated. I still don't know what I'm doing with my life, but at least I feel alive. |