Grief, after all, is desire for the dead or for what’s been lost and can never come again. Grief is longing. This was stasis without fulfillment. This was the world stopped, meaning extinguished. – Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking More than a dozen years ago, Paul and I were in a serious train wreck with…
My essays are a form of mind travel, of walking toward answers with an acute awareness that I will never come to the end of the road. I use my own experiences the way I use the experiences of others – as insights to further an idea. – Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking, 2014 This…
X-Ray technicians Yard conductors Yard hostlers Yard loader operators Yeast makers Yellow pages space salespersons Yoga instructors Yoga teachers Youth program directors Youth services librarians Youth workers Zoning engineers Zookeepers Zoologists and wildlife biologists Zoologists Zoology professors S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook At the end of day, there is still work to be…
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As I have read, reflected, and written about work this week, I have found both implied and explicit references to work having a prescribed outcome. I agree readily that work produces something; I have said that this gives me a sense of satisfaction. But I still find myself feeling a bit jarred by the notion…
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is. — Henry Ward Beecher The hard, tedious, menial, monotonous work of the rat race – drudgery. Work done by someone in an unimaginative way. Just yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to someone talk about their work. They described a circular ritual of seeing the need…
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein For me there is something particularly freeing about work that is not a job. When Paul and I bought our house we did so with an eye to having dogs in a fenced yard that…
I work because I like to work. Work produces something and leaves me with a sense of accomplishment. When I was a boy, my mother had my brother, sisters, and me clean the house every Saturday. We washed baseboards, scrubbed the tub and sinks, polished furniture, dusted and vacuumed. Usually one room a month would…
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