I've been busy with good news today. A friend of mine runs a public relations firm and is the former director of the Hand Tools Institute, an educational outreach program sponsored by American manufacturers of hand tools. My friend plans to propose to that organization that they sponsor a nation-wide expansion of the Wisdom of the Hands program. First step for me was to register "Wisdom of the Hands" as a trademark to prevent the name being devalued by use by others. The trademark is now pending.

The second bit of good news is that my article about woodworking with kids is nearly ready for publication on the Fine Woodworking website. Now I am busy collecting the photos that will be used to illustrate the article. As we all know, the significance of the hands in learning is a "no-brainer". The hands make difficult concepts easy to grasp. And then, the hands turn learning to doing, enabling students to move from the realm of passive consumer of products, information and entertainment to active participants in life and creativity.