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thedrifter
01-30-07, 02:51 PM
Desolate Roads Part 2 of 2

I once knew an old man who saved everything that might have an eventual use, especially old lumber and nails. He’d tear down old fences or sheds, and rip out the nails with a claw hammer. The nails squeaked as he pried them from the dry, gray wood, weathered by years of sun and rain. The man would work steadily through the heat, sweating but never slowing, dropping each nail into an old coffee can. When he’d finished sorting and stacking the wood, he’d turn to each nail, and hammer it straight as it would go. Some of the old nails had lost their strength or were beyond straightening, and he’d set those aside. When it came time came to build something, he’d go to his lumber piles, pull what he needed, then he’d count out the rusty nails one by one, and go to work. He never said, “This wall needed a hundred nails, but today the wind was calm, and so long as the wind behaves, these fifty nails will hold strong.”

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Ellie