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Babaganoosh said:
You never loose the feeling, just become content.
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I thought of you and some of the chats we've had. You're spot on, and I'll continue to think of these words as the years pass.

When I think more deeply about it, there's a long tradition of meditation through action. It's where the labyrinth maze comes from, a common outdoor feature on many church grounds. The idea is that we quiet our waking mind through physical action, leaving our subconscious with the room to connect with what's most important. Working quietly by ourselves on these trucks, or shoulder to shoulder with people we care most about probably accomplishes something very similar. It's good you have your dad's truck, and connect with his and your family's memory almost at will.

David
 
AgDieseler said:
I thought of you and some of the chats we've had. You're spot on, and I'll continue to think of these words as the years pass.

When I think more deeply about it, there's a long tradition of meditation through action. It's where the labyrinth maze comes from, a common outdoor feature on many church grounds. The idea is that we quiet our waking mind through physical action, leaving our subconscious with the room to connect with what's most important. Working quietly by ourselves on these trucks, or shoulder to shoulder with people we care most about probably accomplishes something very similar. It's good you have your dad's truck, and connect with his and your family's memory almost at will.

David
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Beautifully said, you are exactly correct.
 
AgDieseler said:
I thought of you and some of the chats we've had. You're spot on, and I'll continue to think of these words as the years pass.

When I think more deeply about it, there's a long tradition of meditation through action. It's where the labyrinth maze comes from, a common outdoor feature on many church grounds. The idea is that we quiet our waking mind through physical action, leaving our subconscious with the room to connect with what's most important. Working quietly by ourselves on these trucks, or shoulder to shoulder with people we care most about probably accomplishes something very similar. It's good you have your dad's truck, and connect with his and your family's memory almost at will.

David
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Thank you for sharing. You made me understand a little more about the things I went through recently...I thought maybe I was a little nutty for pouring myself into some projects after loosing two loved ones in short order. This explains a lot of what I felt while working. Whenever you open up about your personal feelings, you feel as if you might be showing weakness, when in fact you are most likely helping others dealing with the same or similar feelings. I'm sorry for your loss, and glad you've used it to grow.
 
anwat said:
Whenever you open up about your personal feelings, you feel as if you might be showing weakness, when in fact you are most likely helping others dealing with the same or similar feelings.
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This was a lesson I learned as well. Weakness is actually not confronting those feelings, or avoiding sitting with them to allow them to change you. That grief after a loss is that loved one's last gift to us. It took me a while to figure that out, and to not squander it.

I'm sorry for you losing two people so close together, and am glad you were able to find comfort in working on these trucks we like so much.

David
 
AgDieseler said:
This was a lesson I learned as well. Weakness is actually not confronting those feelings, or avoiding sitting with them to allow them to change you. That grief after a loss is that loved one's last gift to us. It took me a while to figure that out, and to not squander it.

I'm sorry for you losing two people so close together, and am glad you were able to find comfort in working on these trucks we like so much.

David
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I wish I had learned this much quicker it took me about 5 years.

Death happened so much in my family over a few years I became numb to the pain.
 
That's one of the things my in-laws told me a lot when I started wotking in the sign business with them doing sales. You can sell someone an inexpensive sign without it being "cheap".
 
AgDieseler said:
I have not tended to my garden.

It's been a year since I uploaded anything, and for reasons that were sufficient to me, 2022 saw no significant content creation activity. As I restart the channel next week, I will share with you all here the early look at what's coming along with the explanation as to "where I've been."

This is an unlisted video. It will never be public or monetized or part of a playlist. It's purely for those who are closest, and a core group of subscribers.


"You're never old enough to lose your mom."

Those were my mother's words from over 15 years ago given as wisdom to my wife as her mother was starting treatment. I'm not explicit in the video, but it was my mom who passed away between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2021. You'll see it in later episodes, but my dad and I built the 6.5 as a shared grieving process, took the truck to Moab, the PNW, Colorado, Moab again, and generally used the project as a way to spend time together. Some people talk out their feelings. I build things. My dad is the same. At 40, I processed loss about the same as if I were 15 or 20, confirming the wisdom of my mother's words.

For those of you all that met him at Blazer Bash, my dad and I were in the midst of that "go out and do everything and get in a lot of good trouble right effing now" phase of things. I'm the youngest of three, but the one who can flex on and off my 9-to-5 the easiest, and so I basically took him on all my trips for the year and then some. As I write this, he's doing well and is just back from spending a month traveling in the Airstream to South Texas, and is making plans for the next trip. We'll be together at EJS with the waggy, and I'm quite sure we'll break something. Hopefully it's not the Duramax.

That was my 2022, and considerations for the channel and WM&F as a business could slide. Today, none of us are right, but we're okay. It's time to do the next thing.

David
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this. We had a string of deaths and misfortunes in 2020 and 2021, and we've been slow to get back on our feet afterwards. 2022, as you said, was very short on the emotional energy required for creative endeavors. It's one reason I'm not on here much anymore. My truck, while functional, has sat idle for so long I've thought of selling it off. Just for lack of creative energy to write another story with it.

So I find your story encouraging. Especially that last line:
AgDieseler said:
Today, none of us are right, but we're okay. It's time to do the next thing.

David
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A reminder that this lack of energy is a normal part of grieving, and that it will pass as time goes by.


Maybe I'll keep that truck around for a while yet. :thinking:

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campfire said:
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this. We had a string of deaths and misfortunes in 2020 and 2021, and we've been slow to get back on our feet afterwards. 2022, as you said, was very short on the emotional energy required for creative endeavors. It's one reason I'm not on here much anymore. My truck, while functional, has sat idle for so long I've thought of selling it off. Just for lack of creative energy to write another story with it.

So I find your story encouraging. Especially that last line:

A reminder that this lack of energy is a normal part of grieving, and that it will pass as time goes by.


Maybe I'll keep that truck around for a while yet. :thinking:

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Please do…I’m sure I’m not the only one that enjoys the stories
 
campfire said:
reminder that this lack of energy is a normal part of grieving, and that it will pass as time goes by.


Maybe I'll keep that truck around for a while yet.
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Grief will change you, and your truck will be ready when you are. I’m glad you could connect with my story and I look forward to connecting with yours again when you are ready to tell them.

A fresh story for this week:


David
 
Hey David, I just read about your Dad. I'm so sorry for your loss Brother...
 
Big fan of your videos and work, I appreciate your emphasis on time management.

I look forward to applying a couple of tips you shared in your latest video: making the project work for you and managing sub tasks.

One of the early videos you shared steps or tips on preparing for work sessions however short they are, I’ve taken full advantage of that. Would like to watch the video again, the original post now says private is it posted elsewhere?

https://ck5.com/forums/threads/okay-lets-go.338508/page-3#post-4061771



Thanks for posting up and sharing.
 
joshuak said:
One of the early videos you shared steps or tips on preparing for work sessions
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Sure glad you’ve enjoyed the videos. That one you’re referencing didn’t get many views and was pruned a few weeks ago along with some others.

David
 
AgDieseler said:
Sure glad you’ve enjoyed the videos…
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I really have enjoyed them. IMO, content and editing is some of the best on the youtubes, with good back ground music and most excellent appearances by the pups.

Too bad about the pruning, I get it. But if a Classics playlist gets made, I vote for that one to be added please lol.

Nice additions to the online store by the way.

Best of wishes moving forward… :waytogo:
 
joshuak said:
…good back ground music and most excellent appearances by the pups.

Too bad about the pruning, I get it. But if a Classics playlist gets made, I vote for that one to be added please lol.
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The music and dogs are my favorite parts, too.

I might recycle that episode idea and refresh it later this year. In-shop tips are super easy to shoot and edit, and maybe a new approach will get better views.

David
 
AgDieseler said:
The music and dogs are my favorite parts, too.

I might recycle that episode idea and refresh it later this year. In-shop tips are super easy to shoot and edit, and maybe a new approach will get better views.

David
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Drop some youtube knowledge on me: does pruning as you've mentioned help with any algorithm you know of? Of is it just tidiness on your part? Thanks! -Jacob

edit: or option C, something else?
 
ekajkrats said:
does pruning as you've mentioned help with any algorithm you know of?
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It kind of does help. Mostly, I’m removing a video that drags down the overall channel metrics. Keeping low-view content doesn’t serve the channel audience (they didn’t like it the first time), and that’s the first and last rule about making content.

I give videos a year, and if they don’t work, down the go. Unfortunately, that included Harriet’s story too, which was very hard to take down.

David
 
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