“Rough work is all I require Son. If it has burs and knicks, all the better I say. You worry too much lad. Crude and strong, I’ll be back on the return. If you need the raw supplies, I will arrange a drop.”
It was clear that the slaver would not take ‘no’ for an answer, and it occurred to Jonathon that he himself might end up shackled to his work, or onsold, or both. He had known five minutes of freedom, only to have some surrogate father step in and want to tell him what to do to fill his days.
“I will no longer be calf to the bull”, he said to himself.
And the voice of his inner man called to him to there and then, to step out of his childhood and become grown with a certainty of himself, according to himself.
Jon closed his eyes, and reflected on what it was to be him.
He could decide - he could choose - he could stay or he could go … and just by knowing this was his to ponder, he felt the freedom of his living spirit within, rising above, aloft the heavenly powers, now to endure all else.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series
It was clear that the slaver would not take ‘no’ for an answer, and it occurred to Jonathon that he himself might end up shackled to his work, or onsold, or both. He had known five minutes of freedom, only to have some surrogate father step in and want to tell him what to do to fill his days.
“I will no longer be calf to the bull”, he said to himself.
And the voice of his inner man called to him to there and then, to step out of his childhood and become grown with a certainty of himself, according to himself.
Jon closed his eyes, and reflected on what it was to be him.
He could decide - he could choose - he could stay or he could go … and just by knowing this was his to ponder, he felt the freedom of his living spirit within, rising above, aloft the heavenly powers, now to endure all else.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series
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