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"Create a Magic Garden" by Donald R. Brann

"What was of vital importance yesterday, holds little value if we lose the mental or physical capability to enjoy it. But like most important forces beyond our control, what we sometimes lose, frequently opens door [sic] to new opportunities."

 

Donald Brann, channeling Yoda.

 

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From a series of circa-1960s D.I.Y. books called "Easi-Bild" that were published by a fellow named Donald Brann. In the beginning of each one, he wrote a little homily that tried to link up his own Confucius-like wisdom with whatever Easy Bild project was at hand.

 

So there would be a couple of paragraphs where he waxed poetic about some general concept essential to the good life, and then there would be a paragraph where he'd try to make you think you'd never done better by yourself than you did the moment you decided, say, to purchase the Easy Bild book on building a plywood bar in your basement.

 

A tragically overlooked 20th-century Thoreau was Mr. Brann.

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Uploaded on March 10, 2010
Taken on March 9, 2010