[TheForge] ruminations, not entirely cheerful, but the board is pretty dead just now

[peter fels]

Yet another fellow smith is on his way out and a growing number of my metal working friends and peers,
have been doing involuntary dances with doctors....
Found myself feeling more mortal than usual...posted this in that context on another board..

> Loving fire, and having the expertise we do....
> I wonder if there isn't a grim gothy niche here,
> Featuring forging parties  for our fellow metal molesters..
> to come and gather on the occasion of our respective demises,
> and use the fierce heat of our cremations,
> to hammer out our grave-marker artifact,
> and drink a whole lot of our booze.
> A sort of metal sculptors' equivalent of a
> 'New Orleans Jazz funeral....
> And harness the power of creative melancholy.
pf