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Walker - Interesting Items Found in Old Barns
| Walker Below is a conversation via comments from the original uploaded "Walker" video. CONVERSATION ONE kerrywessell (2 months ago) Reply This is a very different piece in a way than the others; it's about this one night my grandfather, named Walker, told me a story that basically formed in my head the sort of man I should try to be. It was a few days after an old vermonter friend of his passed, and we were sitting up in the cupola (a small room on my grandparents property sitting on top of our barn, 5x8 feet) where we can see Okemo, Killington and more. This old friend, Allen, was a symbol for my grandfather... cont kerrywessell (2 months ago) Reply cont... as I see it anyway. He told me about the time Allen saw these two guys trying to carry a cast iron stove (heavy!). Allen was 70 at the time. These two guys, they are huffing, struggling. Allen says, "HEY! You two can't even carry that stove?!" and then proceeds to pick up the whole thing on his back and moves it to where they want it. Now, the catch is that this injury ends up causing his death a while later. But he couldn't admit injury after emasculating two grown men... cont kerrywessell: con't... so he didn't say a word. On one hand, Allen--the man carrying the stove--is being a jerk right? He just emasculated two grown men, yet he's helping in a bullheaded way... so much so that no one else but him is doing any work. It's sort of a double edged sword. There's nothing wrong with being masculine, but there are trade-offs X;b>...X;/b> |
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