3D Printing Adventures

AugureyeExpress  March 11 2014

3DPrinterI’ve felt all my life that Henry David Thoreau was speaking directly to me personally when he wrote about following the beat of that different drummer. I’ve diligently followed that wisdom since first encountering it as a schoolboy; to the eternal dismay of my parents who had my life all mapped out for me in tidy five year plan increments. It helped a lot that my release from the educational system neatly coincided with the emergence of a new social culture in 1967.

It seemed at the time like everyone was wanting me to pick a life just like theirs; yet when I saw how unhappy they all were it didn’t make any sense to work that hard just to be so unhappy; so I’ve been following that different drummer ever since, with mixed results to be sure, but by far more good than bad. Turns out that drumming sound is actually your own heartbeat, and we all know we just can’t go wrong following our hearts!

It never seemed very logical to me that a man should devote 30 years of labor building somebody else’s dream; just for a drinking problem and an early grave; no matter how many others were doing it. My philosophy has always been to set about doing what makes my soul resonate, following my heart, then find means to an income to support it.

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