A Yoke Built for Two | A Dead Hog, a Shovel, and a Fifteen-Year-Old
At fifteen, I spent a summer caring for my great-grandfather’s Missouri ranch. A dead hog, marked railroad ties, and the wrong shed taught me the limits of figuring things out alone. Later, Jerry worked beside me and showed me how. This true story leads into hard work, mentorship, Rawls and Walzer, and a question about responsibility: who chooses to share the work they have earned the right to refuse?
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