Stating the not so obvious.

Stating the not so obvious...

When a beautiful and useful object is brought to completion, there's a level of pride attached, whether it's made from wood or bottle caps unless you are one of those whose values are only measurable in dollars and cents. There's more to life than that. 

When a chef prepares a good meal, or you're working behind the front counter at Taco Bell and make your burritos just right according to the recipe that comes from on high, there's pride in that also. And when your boss tells you that what you've spent a near lifetime learning and doing is no longer of value to them, the loss runs deeper than your newly arrived free time and the dollars seeping out of your accounts that were to pay the mortgage that you can no longer afford. Do I need to tell you a few things? 

When a young woman stands at a lathe, directing her gouge lightly into wood, shaping a bowl for the first time, she's making more than a bowl. The moments may be less than a  whole life, depending on what comes next, but she has demonstrated skills that likely stick in that practice and in other things, whether or not she sees another lathe in her whole life. Such is the way of things in the really real world.

I have an editor in town the next three days to take photographs for articles in Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Make, fix and create...