A Bridge of Wood
It really isn't possible to make a bridge in this place unless you have the material at hand and Tim made a lot of bridges. He fashioned them from wood, steel, bamboo, hemp rope, concrete and sometimes, just clouds. Tim's bridges were never really sound but the fact that Tim made bridges is what matters.
A bridge isn't necessarily a good thing. Sometimes Tim built bridges to attack, sometimes to reach places or people, sometimes just to create bridges. He fashioned them from the materials he dredged up and things he felled. Building bridges here requires a good grasp of the tools that are useful and Tim was a natural in this regard, his digital facets were clear and unambiguous.
Bridges of wood are flexible, natural, intricate digital structures, these bridges represent substantial real material. It wasn't difficult to determine that Tim was a real person with a phone, a bike and aspirations, all you had to do was listen, Tim shared a lot of his life with his friends. In addition to sharing his life, Tim shared his strengths, answering questions and helping out on matters that had little to do with stocks or investing. Tim built a lot of contacts into his digital structure and often real contacts were used. A lot of people felt that they knew Tim very well, but I know that Tim was always the engineer on the crazy train, this displacement was real. Tim carried on conversations with a lot of different people aimed in a lot of different directions and the tickets on the Crazy Train were not all coach. In reading historical posts for this story I often found difficult messages, the reconciliation of these messages with the majority of Tim's contributions depended upon the fact that the crazy train never could have been conceived as a vehicle that required wooden bridges. When I said that Tim's bridges were never really sound I was reflecting on this fact. Tim didn't feel that he knew anyone well enough to use his bridges to reach them in the end. I suspect that Tim would have found help here among the people that he touched, that is the nature of bridges made with wood.
As members of this community each one of us should realize that these bridges of wood that we share with others are in the end, capable of supporting great weight. The degree of correlation between your digital projection and your self will determine the strength of the structures that you build, when Tim built the crazy train he knew it could never travel on a bridge of wood.
Back on the rail
The Outlaw
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