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25 JULY 2011
I went paperless last month. All the bills are online, my passwords linked to strange mnemonics with random numbers at the end. There's a virtual account at a “web-bank” somewhere that pays them when I tell them to.
Contrast the ridiculous tradition of leaving one's mark on life using paper: files, documents, wills, warrants, receipts. (poetry would be the exception.)
Contrast this with the work of Masons.
With the walls, the stone, the privacy, and the jagged ruins. With the 80 stories of bricks and sand. With the smoke filling and flowing in a true path out and up.
I am under strong impression that a good mason is something indelible. Mike Blodgett came by our house last Thursday, along with Steve and Keith for help. The project I handed him was not a simple one, a chimney replacement about 40 feet up in the air on a high roof. He came and did a job that not many could do, over the weekend no less, with a big smile no less.
After the first rain since the work was completed, I'm happy to say there is no evidence of any moisture around the chimney. The previous, porous chimney and its very thin mortar have been replaced with something that should hold up for the next 100 years. How about that.
I went paperless last month. All the bills are online, my passwords linked to strange mnemonics with random numbers at the end. There's a virtual account at a “web-bank” somewhere that pays them when I tell them to.
Contrast the ridiculous tradition of leaving one's mark on life using paper: files, documents, wills, warrants, receipts. (poetry would be the exception.)
Contrast this with the work of Masons. With the walls, the stone, the privacy, and the jagged ruins. With the 80 stories of bricks and sand. With the smoke filling and flowing in a true path out and up.
I am under strong impression that a good mason is something indelible. Mike Blodgett came by our house last Thursday, along with Steve and Keith for help. The project I handed him was not a simple one, a chimney replacement about 40 feet up in the air on a high roof. He came and did a job that not many could do, over the weekend no less, with a big smile no less.
After the first rain since the work was completed, I'm happy to say there is no evidence of any moisture around the chimney. The previous, porous chimney and its very thin mortar have been replaced with something that should hold up for the next 100 years. How about that.
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