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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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Bring
out
your
social
remedies!
They
will
fail,
they
will
fail,
every
one,
until
each
man
has
his
feet
somewhere
upon
the
soil!
My
wild
plum
trees
grow
in
the
coarse
earth,
among
excrementitious
mould,
a
physical
life
which
finally
blossoms
and
exhales
its
perfect
odour:
which
ultimately
bears
the
seed
of
its
immortality.
Human
happiness
is
the
true
odour
of
growth,
the
sweet
exhalation
of
work:
and
the
seed
of
human
immortality
is
borne
secretly
within
the
coarse
and
mortal
husk.
So
many
of
us
crave
the
odour
without
cultivating
the
earthly
growth
from
which
it
proceeds:
so
many,
wasting
mortality,
expect
immortality!
----"Why,"
asks
Charles
Baxter,
"do
you
always
put
the
end
of
your
stories
first?"
"You
may
be
thankful,"
I
replied,
"that
I
do
not
make
my
remarks
all
endings.
Endings
are
so
much
more
interesting
than
beginnings."
Without
looking
up
from
the
buggy
he
was
mending,
Charles
Baxter
intimated
that
my
way
had
at
least
one
advantage:
one
always
knew,
he
said,
that
I
really
had
an
end
in
view--and
hope
deferred,
he
said----
----How
surely,
soundly,
deeply,
the
physical
underlies
the
spiritual.
This
morning
I
was
up
and
out
at
half-past
four,
as
perfect
a
morning
as
I
ever
saw:
mists
yet
huddled
in
the
low
spots,
the
sun
coming
up
over
the
hill,
and
all
the
earth
fresh
with
moisture,
sweet
with
good
odours,
and
musical
with
early
bird-notes.
It
is
the
time
of
the
spring
just
after
the
last
seeding
and
before
the
early
haying:
a
catch-breath
in
the
farmer's
year.
I
have
been
utilising
it
in
digging
a
drainage
ditch
at
the
lower
end
of
my
farm.
A
spot
of
marsh
grass
and
blue
flags
occupies
nearly
half
an
acre
of
good
land
and
I
have
been
planning
ever
since
I
bought
the
place
to
open
a
drain
from
its
lower
edge
to
the
creek,
supplementing
it
in
the
field
above,
if
necessary,
with
submerged
tiling.
I
surveyed
it
carefully
several
weeks
ago
and
drew
plans
and
contours
of
the
work
as
though
it
were
an
inter-oceanic
canal.
I
find
it
a
real
delight
to
work
out
in
the
earth
itself
the
details
of
the
drawing.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
