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On the beauty of work

even without the promise of more

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Jen Knox
Nov 16, 2023
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Hard work has always offered me a sense of comfort. Or maybe it was the necessity of hard work that invited me to embrace it. Either way, I was never one to coast. In part because I never felt particularly gifted or talented.

There’s nothing to acquire, nothing to abandon,
nothing to assert, nothing to deny. 
What are marks of high rank?
Even the hills and …

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