built to last

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Imagine you are one of the stones in the wall.

Imagine too, all that work that went into the wall, to get you to that resting place.

You are one with the wall.

You and the rest of the stones are the wall.

You are built to last

(but not forever).

You are built to last gracefully,

Last acceptingly, 

Last honestly. 

To last, relying on something other than glue or cement. 

To last, not relying on any ridiculous over-engineering.

To last without needing to be all things, all the time.

You are just one thing. 

Imagine you are home at last.

You are comfortable with being last.

Comfortable going slower and slower. Slower like a tree, like a mountain. 

At rest. Just lasting away.

—John Shaw-Remmington

always excellent at Thinking With My Hands

A companion to Dry Stone Walling Across Canada

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