Uninhabited islands

Just in case any one of us were to move to an uninhabited island in the Indian ocean, and it being thence no longer uninhabited there's a 10 percent tariff on anything we would sell to folks back home in the good old United States.  God bless us. We'll get by. And not be moving to an uninhabited island any time soon.

Being that I'm going nowhere to sell my stuff, just mainly making it and writing about it we'll get by as the stock market craters and our leadership in the world ends.

When you make things yourself, things needed for your neighbors and friends, more than dollars and cents are involved. There lies the rub. Politicos from both parties claimed we were to be a "service economy" in an "information age," and no skills would be required but those of flipping burgers for each other. In the meantime, when you make a thing beautiful, or useful or both, and share it with others, you've developed skills of hand and mind. You've become smarter. That's then reflected in the communities we share with each other which we build ourselves.

And that is a somewhat hidden value. You have to make something to understand the pride involved. Money or no money. The results are there in your own hands and mind and you need no tariffs or "information age" to understand it.

One of my readers asked for an inside view of my jewelry box. So here it is. The side compartments are fitted with jewelry hangers as well as the box inside the top.

Make, fix and create...