27 May
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By Charlie Kondek
Something to Make Your Daily Grind Look Rosier
Art of Manliness is a terrific men’s blog that I’ve placed with, contributed to as a guest blogger and which, of course, I read. A great piece today on working, excerpts from a 1914 book on vocations. See if this makes your daily toil look a bit more ennobled and, speaking of noble, have a great Memorial Day weekend:
- There is no honest vocation that cannot be made to some extent a fine art. That is, in every honest vocation, each day, growth is possible, if the work is loyally done; and that, we have seen, is the meaning of art. Indeed, the one supreme fine art is the art of living, and the particular vocation gets its meaning as a phase of that highest art. In most vocations, it is true, there is so much dull routine work that we can discover little growth in the action of the single day. To go to the shop and sell a spool of thread and a paper of pins, to make the physician’s daily round, prescribing for those who are ill and the larger number who think they are, to work over the lawyer’s brief for some petty quarrel, to write sermons for congregations that will not listen and that demand the sermon shorter every week—it all seems such a blind mill-wheel grind that one sees little progress in the day . . . It is, nevertheless, just such work, done cheerfully and loyally, to a high purpose, through the succession of days, that builds into the human spirit the noblest elements of culture.
- Date: 05.27.2010
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