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3D Printing Adventures
I've felt all my life that Henry David Thoreau was speaking directly to me personally when he wrote about following the beat of that different drummer. I've diligently followed that wisdom since first encountering it as a schoolboy; to the eternal dismay of my parents who had my life all mapped out for me in tidy five year plan increments. It helped a lot that my release from the educational system neatly coincided with the emergence of a new social culture in 1967.
It seemed at the time like everyone was wanting me to pick a life just like theirs; yet when I saw how unhappy they all were it didn't make any sense to work that hard just to be so unhappy; so I've been following that different drummer ever since, with mixed results to be sure, but by far more good than bad. Turns out that drumming sound is actually your own heartbeat, and we all know we just can't go wrong following our hearts!
It never seemed very logical to me that a man should devote 30 years of labor building somebody else's dream; just for a drinking problem and an early grave; no matter how many others were doing it. My philosophy has always been to set about doing what makes my soul resonate, following my heart, then find means to an income to support it. Again, mixed results, but more good than bad. In the fullness of time this philosophy led me to working in the human potential movement, and vibrational medicine which became my chosen career. In the latter part of 1998 some researchers in the field of Bio-feedback created the first computerized full color aura imaging system, and naturally I just had to have one despite the ten grand price tag for the system. As I was trying to line up the creative financing angle; my closest friends kept warning me not to invest so heavily in computers with the dreaded Y2K looming on the horizon. I of course ignored them all, bought the system in 1999 and began doing business as The Little Shop of Auras…with the marketplace all to myself for over a year before I saw someone else with one.
Seven years later I retired, & sold my business so I could focus my energy in other directions for a while; but always keeping my eye open for another great ride like the one I got from the aura machine. If I had to pick one factor which kept my little aura machine humming for so long, it
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/03/3d-printing-adventures.html
