Our Shady past has a story, behind each doorknob there is a tale, so much hidden finally told.
Channel: Brad Kittel
Date: 2022-04-14

Here is a brief series of stories behind the doorknobs, light shades, rosettes, and artistry of lighting up our past narrated by Brad W. Kittel. As we turn these relics into crafts that preserve the true artistry, talent seldom found today in kids under 20 years old as were the creators of most of what you see.  Once upon a time when starting your work life at 12, by 16 you were a journeyman working 350 days a year in hellish conditions to create glass and metal artworks that were functional and beautiful. 
The nostalgia of the past regretfully forgets the amazing number of manhours spent to create a single set of door hardware or lighting for the rich who could afford it, but seldom to be seen again in a house by the kids that created the resources it took to create the wonders I share with you here.
Still today the special resources like coal, cobalt, and many other minerals are mined by children far away in the Congo or other places where the world does not see the kids doing the work.  As in the 1700s-1800s... well into the 1900s in America, this has gone on under many guises the need for family members working to support single mothers whose fathers died on the jobs without benefits and were paid with company tokens instead of cash, as was done legally in the lumber industry in Texas until banned by law in the early 1930s, big corporations have been able to create slavery of various sorts over and again. 
The story of the incredible things and how they were created in a day when we barely knew of electricity, supposedly, leaves one in wonder at the stories we are told... the story or who's story we have been taught, besides His-story proposed by TV and Schools paid for by less than great guys like Gates, for the "benefit of the-ir world".
This is to teach those who wish to know more of what Wii, the "I"s of the world who worked to create the Real Estate Jewelry in the days before income tax on the rich, unions, or human rights came to America.  
Pray that the people do not lose so much that was gained when the economy collapses in the times ahead.
Preparation is a wise choice in these times, your health first, your abilities and strength of mind, body, and Spirit will all be required to thrive in the future so keep learning, growing, and Being a better person for that is what our world lacks the most in this day and age.
Be the example and know what can be done by that which has been done, respecting our past, our ancestors, the product of lives of experience sometimes condensed into a book or piece of art.
This, like the babies that grow up from what appears like impossible odds to become the greatest of leaders and examples, writers, artists, musicians, and more from children others would have aborted, even after they were born.
Life is a miracle.
Thus am I.
Be Phenomenal by doing phenomenal things all your life, mostly when you get to your prime after 66 years old, if you are gifted with the rewards of honoring thy vessel you were gifted with to make life possible.
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