Hygge or Hózhó?

I woke up in the night with a feeling of warmth and contentment thinking about the Norwegian word hygge for a situation of noticeable harmony, and the similar word hózhó which means approximately the same thing in Navajo.

Perhaps the feeling was inspired by reading Tony Hillerman's books about the Navajo, and noticing a similarity between native American design and that created by Norwegian craftsmen in creating Vikingsholm in Lake Tahoe. These boxes have a native American feel that could be right at home in Norwegian design.

So rather than appropriating native American design motifs I am exercising (as a half Norwegian) my own as the patterns are universal.

The patterns are created from strips of wood offset to each other and fitted into routed grooves.

May we seek harmony in all we do. Even the worst of us can serve someone as a bad example. Like it or not, we are all in this together. So get used to it and feel blessed.

Make, fix and create.