Month: July 2020

Every one of these ideas had its own folder; with at least a Word doc rough description of how to work it up — some are even at the layout/artwork stage. All the ideas were thrown into a hopper; and I picked out whichever I felt like working on. The ideas were organized in several different ways, so I wouldn’t lose control of the project.

I would like to share two insights that took me many years to learn the hard way:

1. Always organize the project in your mind, and clear the workspace before starting.

2. Always put things in the first place you would look for them.

There is more truth in these statements than is comfortable — in fact; they’re all true.

Part 2 of the book will still have some bits and pieces like this poem. The poem speaks for itself.

In Cornithaca County’s Ag Ghetto: rich farmers, surrounded by rural white poverty, drug addiction, and joblessness; hire subsidized foreign labor and put up Black Lives Matter signs to emphasize their dismissive attitude.

“Rural whites don’t matter” is the basis of the County’s rural policy.

This will be well documented in Part II of this book.

The humanity and wisdom expressed by the quotes in this book, and hopefully echoed in its activities and games, is a touchstone for human behavior that is hard to argue with. Every speaker points to an unconditional humanity: a golden rule that cannot be bent — only broken.

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” — Abraham Lincoln

In one sense; this book compares the principles of these original speakers with those who today claim to be following in their footsteps. In this age of scams; are their pretentions no more than a cover?