trumbology
"Once Upon a Time" by Donald R. Brann
"Our parents took time to live, to cultivate friendship, to build a home and a marriage. Today we live a far different life, one dictated by split second decisions. Unless we swerve right instead of left, go around a darkened area instead of through, we gamble on survival."
Build a fireplace and forget your existential crises!
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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.
"Once Upon a Time" by Donald R. Brann
"Our parents took time to live, to cultivate friendship, to build a home and a marriage. Today we live a far different life, one dictated by split second decisions. Unless we swerve right instead of left, go around a darkened area instead of through, we gamble on survival."
Build a fireplace and forget your existential crises!
* * * * *
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.