Woodturning teacher David Morris said something this evening that most woodworkers will understand. He said, just as you rarely see motorcycles parked in front of a psychologist's office, you will almost never see someone go in with sawdust in his (or her) underwear. That was a rather quaint way of saying what many of us know to be true. Working with wood is better than Prozac at maintaining a sense of mental and emotional balance and well-being. If you look around at what our abandonment of hands-on activities has done to our culture, you will gain a sense of the immense idiocy of our nation. You may even be inspired to change a few things. A trip to the woodshop may help. The photo below is from my class in Ft. Lauderdale over the weekend with the South Florida Woodworking Guild