This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Arkansas governor Bill Clinton had taken my boxes as gifts of state as he traveled, hoping to promote Arkansas trade. Yesterday while visiting in Little Rock he received a box of his own, along with a booklet I'd published of 50 quotes taken from this blog.
I've been working on inlaid cherry boxes. After many years I've found that bordering the inlay is not required. An explosion of creativity is the result.
