How to Harness your Craft.
Some tips to form a bond with your life's purpose, and how it may be facilitated through the typing machine.
Start by scouring Ebay and Etsy for one. Get a typewriter. They are spiritual relics that will never be made again.
On Instagram, my feed now mostly includes those who work on restoring and selling vintage typewriters, like Charlie Foxtrot Typewriter, and Unplug Typewriter.
Many folks ask how I discovered the typing machine, and my journey started in March 2019, while I was searching Etsy for vintage Barling pipes made in England, particularly rare meerschaum varieties—in one store I came across an orange Silver-Reed typewriter from the 80s that was made in Japan, and it was calling to me, so I bought it.
I was having only video calls with my children at the time, as they were living with their mother in Mexico City, and I was in Connecticut, dealing with a situation of constructive discharge from my previous employer. Couldn’t ever convince the State of Connecticut that it was sex discrimination, but all the same—the world seemed to be closing in on all angles. I didn’t know at the time…