True Knowledge

I'm working on the next book.  No idea where it will wind up, but for now I'm focusing on an old-timer near me.  He's 80 years old.  When I talk to him I simultaneously marvel and despair at his breadth of knowledge and how much of it will disappear with him.

Here's a transcription of what he had to say on a recent day when we started out looking at different sets of oxen yokes he made over the years (for his two prize oxen Chester and Lester) and then wound up in his shed by his iron lathe.  ...