“Ordinary” [Reflections On Charles H. Parkhurst (ed) Portraits And Principles of The World's Great Men And Women, N.Y. : Springfield:The King-Richardson Co. 1899 - #85/100]
He states it’s possible to live
In any context – it will give
A living decent, if we watch,
And think about the local talk –For in the scuttlebutt about
There’s often rumors (mixed with doubt)
About potentials some have sensed,
Beneath the ground, beyond the fence.That’s anywhere – low hanging fruit
Is gone for most part – so persist –
It’s up to you – press in, dig down –
With perseverance it’s been found –Before in other contexts small,
Remote, or desolate – for all
Our world’s indeed a resource base
For human beings – any race.The part that’s challenge I can see
In what he writes, applied to me,
Is “Laws and methods” now in use
For business-practice – no excuse –For ignorance in this respect
With a resource-base of Internet;
A wealth of insight – ways and means –
Exist for folks who have not been –Born into homes of businessmen,
Where atmosphere is “Business” – when
Folks speak of life from point of view
Of business needs and process new.But “Getting rich” is different from
Extracting life from Earth, which comes
At great expense – low hanging fruit
Is cheaper way to get one’s loot.So that says, “New community”
Like Valley-life of poetry –
Extracting resource can’t be done
When ’neath the earth the coal-seems run.Then culture comes around those folks
Whose ways of life, long-held, are smoke
And it mirrors – can’t be practiced here
In context new – that’s more than clear.Extraction, process, culture new,
Give rise, with time, to point of view
Unique to centers of resource –
That’s “Richness” (re-defined, of course).Thanks Lord for this.
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