Algerville has a blacksmith. He is also my shaman. One needs a shaman when one lives in the country.
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- jkarah
- Upstate, NY, United States
- After cashing in on my house in Red Hook Brooklyn earlier this year, some unidentified force drove me to spend my winnings on the rescue of this old creamery in the far reaches of the Hudson Valley. My job now is to make it feel like home.
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My father once told me: "the reason 'Smith' is the most common name in the English speaking world is because back in the days before the motorcar, anyone who owned a hammer was called a blacksmith, or smith, for short." This is reminiscent of Kapuscinski's identification of the idea that one small tool--a set of manual hairclippers, a hammer, the right cooking pot--can separate success and life from failure and starvation.
What a sorry state of affairs that a blacksmith today is a lonely specialist worthy of blog-note. 'Shaman,' however, is not a common surname. What does this one get up to?
Just about anything is worthy of blog-note here in case you haven't noticed...not that Jonathan is just anything. He is an important specialist in the area since he is often the only one who can restore the historic Huguenot houses back to working order. I believe, or at least desperately hope, that this craft and the Smith's in general will become blatantly necessary in this climate where we can't afford to relentlessly dispose. Jonathan laughs at my lack of craft, and maybe he is right, but I am hoping it will translate to a kind of commentary on this phenom?
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