The Unemployed Minimalist
By Barry Rachin
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The Hindu mystic, Krishnamurti said it was no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Stumbling across this sobering truth, Ned Ogilvie has decided to drop out of college – resign from higher education but not the merry-go-round of life.
Barry Rachin
About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
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The Unemployed Minimalist - Barry Rachin
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The Unemployed Minimalist
Iris Murdoch was preoccupied in the rear of a forty-foot greenhouse watering a row of lemon verbena, when her supervisor, Emma Thomas, approached. There’s a young guy out by the cash register applying for work,
the woman noted with a pinched expression.
Iris lay the hose aside and dabbed her forehead with a slender wrist. The noonday sun looming directly overhead, temperatures had inched up close to a hundred degrees in the sauna-like space. Is there a problem?
I dunno,
Emma hedged. "He’s sort of weird… like a spring that’s wound just a bit too