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https://quietjourney.com/community/YABB.cgi?num=1339856898 Message started by Oldie Moldy on Jun 16th, 2012 at 2:28pm |
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Title: Re: Littlbug sn. stove and Fast Bucksaw Post by Oldie Moldy on Jul 10th, 2012 at 2:43pm
These discussions of what is the number one danger are fun but in reality don't we face all kinds of potential threats? Usually we manage to get past most of them unscathed. I would humbly suggest that what is really important is the mindset we bring to the problem/task.
When I was a little kid I had a friend who was a more or less retired sheepherder. This was back in the day when an old man and a boy could be friends without all kinds of suggestions of buggery and whatnot. Anyway...he had almost unlimited patience with all my questions. I asked him if he wasn't worried when he was out all alone, maybe break a leg or something? "Yep", he said "but the thing to do was slow down and think. Don't try to bull your way through a piece of work". And scowling at me, "Keep your mind on your work, save the woolgathering for the campfire". All these years later his words still ring true. I can be working at some small fiddly task and thinking that after this I'll do these other things and then I can get back into that book again and then, DANG!! that hurt, wonder if I ought to get stitches. Serves me right; woolgathering. Again. Don't know what's coming after this, but I would sure would like to talk to him again, he was a good old man. Best Wishes, Rob |
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