brick,
Thank you for taking the time to share such poignant thoughts. Yes, it is most interesting how we take so many things for granted until we don't have them.
I had wondered about your user name, and now I understand, after seeing you had been a bricklayer for 30 years. My grandfather was a bricklayer/stone mason his whole life, and was from a long line of them that had been brought to Utah by the Mormon church, in the 1860's, from Norway. I almost went into the same trade myself, but followed my uncle's trade as an electrician (which I did for over 35 years). Sometimes I wish I had followed my grandfather's trade. It saddens me to realize that all his knowledge has passed on with him, and I don't have any of it (nor do any other family members that I know of).
Chester 
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