Started thinking about applying the idea of the gift economy to real life this year after coming back from Black Rock City. A friend and I started thinking, well, why the hell not and clearly it has to start with us. So we started giving away what we do, carpentry and art. We created a Free Carpentry business. It totally transformed our relationship with our work.
Today, we met three different interesting people who were interested in receiving free carpentry work. It was total pleasure meeting them and seeing their lives, their homes, and talking to them about their dreams. Maybe one out of the three will we ever build anything for, but she was an amazing woman who lived in a house built from old wooden streetcars. And she wanted us to build a treehouse in a giant live oak tree.
Excited.
Today, we met three different interesting people who were interested in receiving free carpentry work. It was total pleasure meeting them and seeing their lives, their homes, and talking to them about their dreams. Maybe one out of the three will we ever build anything for, but she was an amazing woman who lived in a house built from old wooden streetcars. And she wanted us to build a treehouse in a giant live oak tree.
Excited.
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pigtails:
Tea in the garden = YEAH
tarragon:
I was destined to be born 5000 miles from the nearest available man. 