With the birth of the steel-frame skyscraper in the late nineteenth century came a new breed of man, as bold and untamed as any this country had ever known. These "cowboys of the skies," as one journalist called them, were the structural ironworkers who walked steel beams -- no wider, often, than the face of a hardcover book -- hundreds of feet above ground, to raise the soaring towers and vaulting bridges that so abruptly transformed America in the twentieth century.
Many early ironworkers were former sailors, new Americans of Irish and Scandinavian descent accustomed to climbing tall ships' masts and schooled in the arts of rigging. Others came from a small Mohawk Indian reservation on the banks of the St. Lawrence River or from a constellation of seaside towns in Newfoundland. What all had in common were fortitude, courage, and a short life expectancy. "We do not die," went an early ironworkers' motto. "We are killed."
High Steel is the stirring epic of these men and of the icons they built -- and are building still. Shifting between past and present, Jim Rasenberger travels back to the earliest iron bridges and buildings of the nineteenth century; to the triumph of the Brooklyn Bridge and the 1907 tragedy of the Quebec Bridge, where seventy-five ironworkers, including thirty-three Mohawks, lost their lives in an instant; through New York's skyscraper boom of the late 1920s, when ironworkers were hailed as "industrial age heroes." All the while, Rasenberger documents the lives of several contempor-ary ironworkers raising steel on a twenty-first-century skyscraper, the Time Warner building in New York City.
This is a fast-paced, bare-knuckled portrait of vivid personalities, containing episodes of startling violence (as when ironworkers dynamited the Los Angeles Times building in 1910) and exhilarating adventure. In the end, High Steel is also a moving account of brotherhood and family. Many of those working in the trade today descend from multigenerational dynasties of ironworkers. As they walk steel, they follow in the footsteps of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers.
We've all had the experience of looking at a par-ticularly awe-inspiring bridge or building and wondering, How did they do that? Jim Rasenberger asks -- and answers -- the question behind the question: What sort of person would willingly scale such heights, take such chances, face such danger? The result is a depiction of the American working class as it has seldom appeared in literature: strong, proud, autonomous, enduring, and utterly compelling.
Okay, let's talk about the Universe.
Say you are employed in the purchasing group of a business. You are in your office and what you need for the enterprise is in a storehouse over town. That's okay because you are linked by computer and all that you need to do to get what you need is enter the proper command and send. (Note that there is a inequity in the middle of command and demand.)
So what happens when you enter the proper command and instead of "send" you hit the back arrow?
What if you enter the proper command and then hit delete or any other button than send?
And what happens if you enter the proper command and hit send - but then call to cancel or hold the order?
What about this scenario - send the order, okay - wait, okay send it, oh no, stop - alright, I need this. Uh no... Maybe I don't. What is the storehouse going to do?
If you see where I am am going with this, good for you! If not, the office is You, the computer is your Link To Spirit and the storehouse is the Universe, which is waiting to fill your needs. Anyone we ask for, the Universe sees as an order and seeks to fill it.
What if we ask for something and we result this invite with "I don't deserve this", "I'm not worthy" or "I'm not good enough"? This is the spiritual equivalent of the delete button. The Universe presumes your attention is on what you want - so it provides the same. However if what you want is not what you Think, your order will be shipped with errors. Your order is sent through your thoughts and the Universe reads the order and sends it. This may not be what you desire to manifest in your life if you are sending that you are not worthy, good enough, not deserving. The Universe will hold your order until you're ready.
The Universe reads exactly what you are mental and sends back exactly what you are ready for - no more, no less.
So... What are you thinking?
How to Get anyone You Want in Life - Ordering From "The Universe"
