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Old 06-18-2013, 09:31 PM   #1
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Time to learn blacksmithery and how to make your own longbow?
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Old 06-18-2013, 09:38 PM   #2
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That would be the healthy response...
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Old 06-18-2013, 09:46 PM   #3
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That would be the healthy response...
We're getting rid of all our stuff, selling our house, I'm only working contract jobs, paid off all our debt and socking my exorbitant IT fees into savings.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
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Old 07-08-2013, 10:46 PM   #4
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That would be the healthy response...
Tillering up your own longbow out of osage-orange -- also called bois-d'arc for darn good reason -- makes a neato hobby. Turning fletcher, there's another.
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