My Biggest Gripe

[IainH]

Lord, I freely grant to Brother Ed, all my excess terseness, a quality of which, I continue to seek to remove from my character. In my world, to get directly to the point without first enquiring into the wellness of the recipient is the height of rudeness. It's the one quality, commonly found among northerners, in particular Yankees, that makes mountain folks cringe (not BrotherJay, Pennsylvania is the starting point of some of my ancestors.) "Dang it, life is hard here and by gosh, we want to know how you are doing before, we get down to bidness", within that is the desire to make a fair deal, if making less enables the other to continue to thrive then, so be it. That was the old way, the Antebellum way of my people. There exists, within the culture of my section, the seeds, if properly tended lend themselves to what we would consider a covenant community. It is there in the genetic history waiting to be used. Idk, maybe it will become clearer as I do.