Gaffer's Rant

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Folk Harper, eccentric, doesn't bite hard. Spent 17 years in Corporate America™, saw the insides of 450 or so companies, found 3 that were ethical. Had three long-term jobs, each lasted within two weeks of a year and a half (one two weeks under, one two weeks over, one just right), and lost all three as I was unwilling to lie, deceive, or perjure, and was fired and replaced with someone less honorable. Score: CA™, 0, Gaffer, 2 bouts of lost time (they call these "psychotic breaks", and one emotional collapse. I did violent things to inanimate objects in that lost time, and don't feel it would be safe (for me and others) to go back into an office job. So now I play the harp, mostly in nursing homes and Senior facilities, and along the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. The operative verb in my job is now, "Play", and the bottom line isn't about anyone's presentation, proposal, or need for perjury - it's about manifesting beauty, and I can usually handle that without exploding. Life gets better, and better, and better.

Very hard impact; on August 16th of 2007, we all lost my partner Stoiphain to pancreatic cancer. I have been working hard since to learn to laugh at the Universe like he did.

I fully agree with kitsunegeek: Callahan's Law: Shared pain is lessened, Shared joy is increased, Thus we refute entropy.

Seven sins (Mohandas Gandhi):
Wealth Without Work
Pleasure Without Conscience
Knowledge Without Character
Commerce Without Morality
Science Without Humanity
Religion Without Sacrifice
Politics Without Principle


Ro says, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man." ----- [George Bernard Shaw, The Revolutionist's Handbook -- although Ro first heard it quoted by Jawaharlal Nehru]

And Frank Herbert's "One Commandment", which I believe should replace and supercede all others, globally. What do you think?

"Thou Shalt Not Disfigure the Soul."

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