Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work

  
I.E.   werg¹    “to do”
 
Orgy.
Organon.
Orgasm.
Orgasmic.
Organ.
Organization:  all in the
work-it etymological family.
Urgent energy & ergonomics,

Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.
Out of the dimness opposite equals advance,
always substance and increase (Whitman)
 
Dean McKinley expressed resistance to
my overstated declaration that Warren
Wilson had no academic or service program:
just a work program: work program academics,
work program service, and of course “the work
program” itself—buildings and grounds,house
keeping and eco-logical maintenance.
 
Work Work Work Work Work Work.
In the 70’s students said WWC
meant We Work Constantly.
 
Integrating the “triad” : it’s all a work
program—what the 3 have in common:
 “to do” lists. What are we supposed
“to do”?  What’s our agenda?.
Agitate? Get R done
 
As opposed to our tradition of sabbaticalizing:
shabbat sabbath: doing nothing, nothing doing.
A field left fallow, call it a fallowship, the deep
regenerative process of having no thing to do,
produce, urge, procreate.
 
In sabbatical mode (for it’s really a frame of
minding, yes?—not an institution; can’t be
nailed down, divvied up, redistributing its wealth.)
thou shalt  do no work.  Need I spell IT out for the
literalists? Here, look:
 
[you can mke the transposition & equivalent from agriculture to
schola (“leisure”) shipping.]  
 
Prohibited:
1.      Sowing
2.      Plowing
3.      Reaping
4.      Binding sheaves
5.      Threshing
6.      Winnowing
7.      Selecting
8.      Grinding
9.      Sifting
10.  Kneading
11.  Baking
12.  Shearing wool
13.  Washing wool
14.  Beating wool
15.  Dyeing wool
16.  Spinning
17.  Weaving
18.  Making two loops
19.  Weaving two threads
20.  Separating two threads
21.  Tying
22.  Untying
23.  Sewing two stitches
24.  Tearing
25.  Trapping
26.  Slaughtering
27.  Flaying
28.  Salting meat
29.  Curing hide
30.  Scraping hide
31.  Cutting hide up
32.  Writing two letters
33.  Erasing two letters
34.  Building
35.  Tearing a building down
36.  Extinguishing a fire
37.  Kindling a fire
38.  Hitting with a hammer
39.  Taking an object from the private domain to the public, or transporting an object in the public domain.

The temptation, of course, (even considered common sense and conscientious)
son,is to tear, trap, slaughter, flay, write letters, extinguish fire, hit with a hammer
all the time, know what I mean? —no break: always so much “to do” that it
 seems a  crime not to be doing it.  Working it.