He seemed to be saying to me: learn to see the beauty in mowing thistles, learn to enjoy the skill of the scythe, learn to tell stories or make people laugh so that even the toughest working days won't break you.
But I began to realize that, despite some whingeing and moments of despair, my father and grandfather thought this continuous work was the inevitable price to be paid for a good life on the land. Things must be done, because they always had been done.
The secret was to settle in your harness and not fight it. Just get on with it. My grandfather seemed to have found a way to endure it through enjoying the wild things around him, and in taking pride at doing things right.
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