Things once made of unsurpassed quality of dovetail jointing and silky smooth gloss finishes to it's wood are not replaces with Made-in-China pieces of fabric and bendable metal skeletons. A quality and a respect for things and craftsmanship no longer known to the common Man of the West. * * * I find myself attaching a lot of thought to the identity of words themselves. One of those moments were I'm trying to figure out if a person when they are talking to another just using words that convey certain feelings to themselves internally, those very specific choice of words they use to another person, often common words that we all understand to have a certain "universal understanding" of the emotions attached to those words. We are using words not to articulate but to make the other person feel a certain way internally. I think that we often find ourselves locked into places where we feel that the emotions we are feeling are to just that, left internally but the reality is the silliest and the mundane all of that needs I think truly needs to be let out into the world so if it's not made of any use to yourself perhaps the simple fact of letting it out into the real world or landing on the ears of someone close to you in proximity - that somehow that helps the universe be a better place. * * * And so yet another day is upon us at work. The motions here have grown tiresome and overwhelming at times, especially the last couple of days. I'm lost of what to do and with a new decade approaching on the calendar we all follow I kind of look at it in a symbolic way. The changing of the decade and the passing of the torch. The guys I work with represent the way things used to be and would like to think that I represent where things are going. A flag-bearer for the next generation of cutters. I just hope everything works out for the boss in regards to his legal matters. Loosing him and the ideas that Jim speaks of growing legs strong enough to walk on their own is all too frightening of a scene to even think about. Jon being in charge means me definitely leaving the store and also having the balls to tell him that to his face. That could very well be Jim's reservations about life and the world and work in relationship to the topics discussed above about conveying emotions with words. Those same sorts of feelings I find myself with as I try and lay it down at night the last couple of days.