The Tao of Chain Link & Dogs

Judy McLain
Hinged
Published in
9 min readOct 16, 2021

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With quotes from Lao Tzu

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

The only fences in 500 B.C., when Lao Tzu walked the earth, were made of banked soiled or stacked rock or people just used natural barriers like rivers to keep themselves safe or to keep their livestock contained.

If someone in those times was building a rock wall and needed it to last, they used limestone mortar to keep it from falling and to make it solid. The…

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