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Routinely,
these years, I have been spending my summers working in Wyoming. And usually I play the mountain man in
the fall through November.
Then I try to
head back to Minnesota
for the holidays. I try to make it
back to Minneapolis for the Thanksgiving holiday. And stay thru the Christmas season.
Then I usually
head down to Georgia
in January to visit with my father and Tee on the family farm.
But this year
I ended up staying in Wyoming and working the whole year. It is the first time I have work on the
same job for a full year in I do not know how long. While the work holds out I am intending
to keep on pounding nails.
Whenever the work dries up, and it has come close a few times these
past few months, I plan on heading south for the winter.
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As I say, I am still living in Wyoming.
This year I am working in construction, in housing construction in
particular.
As opposed
to ranching last year… and the year before that …
Or working in the coal mines the year
before that.
I had wanted to go to work in the oil
fields too. But I wonder whether I will have the time for that after
all. I am getting older, and
healing slower each year, and I understand that the co-workers on the
oilrigs are prone to accidentally injuring one another … fairly often … so, I shy away from that
opportunity.
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June
2009
And it has happened. I have been laid off of work.
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I am still
reading on the American history theme this year.
Working more regularly these years has
slowed my reading and writing down to a crawl. It was a bemusement at first, working in the coalmines and
having nearly no free time for paperwork.
Now, three years later, I feel somewhat … at a loss, away from my
desk. I read little. I write rarely. I do not draw at all anymore.
I have no desk. I have no bookshelves. I have no muse, no poetic. There is no theatre here. I have no theatre in my life. There is a cinema, but so little worth
going to see. There is no Humphrey
Center here, no lectures, seminars, or symposiums.
No Shakespeare in the streets, .
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On my
reading list these days …
John Hancock
Thomas Paine
Scotland’s Empire
About
the ascension of the Scots
The
Fallen Founder
Alexander
Hamilton
His
Excellency
John
Adams
1776
Adams
Chronicles
Benjamin
Franklin
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