
For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations….
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Pic by Shane Casey CK25:
John Deere 7430 Tractor with Amazone AD-P 303 Seed Drill and Power Harrow
A big word of thanks to Edmund Leahy who was drilling Winter Barley late into the night near Castlelyons County Cork
Tractors are, and always will be, amazing.