While producing compost quickly has some merit, no one should feel compelled to purchase chipper-shredders or other elaborate equipment. You can't hurry compost for the same reason you can't hurry love and you can't hurry a souffl . The biochemistry has its own inherent pace. That doesn't mean you won't try. People are not founding companies today, as they once did, in hopes that their grandchildren will some day carry on the family tradition.
Grandchildren take time.
The traditional leather jacket, like a second skin after 10 years of wearing, was not actually comfortable in its first year. You had to make an investment. The attachment to old clothes is in the teddy-bear category, growing more from an emotional web of associations than from anything in the cloth. As our reflexes have certain speeds, so does our formation of memories, our accretion of nostalgia. There are legends and sagas in each ruck and crease of the distressed, heavy, full-grain cowhide.