The Fodder Will Sink To The Muck

Thanksgiving eve, 1968. I was ten and helping my dad stain chairs he bought at an auction earlier in the week. No, these weren’t fancy dining room chairs, but it was what he could afford, and Thanksgiving was coming up. We needed the chairs for the feast.

As we were staining them, I noticed he was even staining the bottom of the seats. “Huh?”, I asked. “Nobody will see that.” Dad explained that it didn’t matter, he knew that the bottom was there.

I know it’s been a while and really there is no excuse, so I won’t busy your blazing minds with how many topics I’ve wanted to write about , but just haven’t gotten around to it.

But, this one has to be broadcast. Pride. Pride is all we have on the web. Pride is how we we build credibility and relevance. This all leads to branding (Thanks Seth!). The more pride we take in what we endeavor to do the more credibility we gain, and from there the dominoes fall.

I create over at Squidoo and there has been quite a bit noise over there about the lack of quality workmanship; sub-par lenses. There is a great amount of validity in these concerns, as well as cries for machinations to prevent this from happening. But, as with everything that a human hand can touch……it can touch it with greatness or it can touch it with sloth. Both will happen. There is no stopping that through rules and filters. For some reason, some folks spend as much time being lazy as they would have if they really tried.

Here’s the rub. People will flock to buy $49 starving artists paintings or clutter their walls with Home Interiors only to toss them in a few years or line the tables with them at a yard sale. On the other hand, a Picaso creation will hang on the same wall for eons and people will swarm to it.

Or, I’ll remember what my Dad taught me forty years ago, especially when I sit on one of those very chairs that he has held on to.

The next round is on me.

~ by drifter0658 on February 21, 2009.