A Lovely Discourse on Handwork

[caelfinn]

Sharon Astyk has a blog about homesteading and she recently wrote a lovely piece about the virtues of handwork. In particular I love the following which she learned from her grandmother:

My grandmother told me that when I was a grown woman, I would live my life in a sea of labor that was done each morning, and undone before I went to bed. I

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[anonymous]

I love this. There is, among the academic and business cultures, a sort of quaint disdain for crafting and handiwork which galls me to no end. It is a human need to build, create, mold, affect, and beautify. Without these actions we devolve into droning babbling automotons clicking endlessly away at our keyboards in response to friends' blogs.

Wait...oh, s**t.

anonymous

[anonymous]

Sorry--not anonymous. Me.
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