illiteracy

[Cracker]

In my whole life I've only encountered one person who didn't know how to read & write. A guy in his late 50's came here looking for work & I saw him struggling with the paperwork and asked if he needed some help. I've occasionally thought about him and wondered if the shock of learning that was written all over my face. He had a lot of experience with the horses & he got the job, his lack of education didn't impair his work ethic in any way.

I don't look at the stupid people I encounter online in the same way, I think those stupid people are just lazy bastards.

Death of the hired man by Robert Frost

..."Warren," she said, "he has come home to die:
You needn't be afraid he'll leave you this time."

"Home," he mocked gently.

"Yes, what else but home?
It all depends on what you mean by home.
Of course he's nothing to us, any more
Than was the hound that came a stranger to us
Out of the woods, worn out upon the trail."

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in."

"I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve." ...