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October 18 - October 18, 2021
We afford our corporations the rights of human individuals, and then we’re surprised when they don’t exhibit human traits like conscience or remorse. Silly rabbit.
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If you’re at all like me (an ardent reader of Tolkien), then you have felt a certain sentience from trees when standing in their quiet, majestic presence. When sliced portions of those noble structures then occupy your bench, there is a natural wisdom retained in the organic cells. Although the tree itself is no longer living, the cells never stop breathing, as it were, in their perpetual tendency to expand and contract with the relative humidity in the air around them. Each piece of wood has a personality, even boards harvested from different parts of the same tree, and in its particular
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So I will now share with you, in this somewhat educational text, that no matter how much we love our time at work (those of us lucky enough to love what we do), we can still find it detrimental if we do it too much. For optimum health, leisure must be held in a regard commensurate with labor. Woodworking serves that function in my life—it inhabits a place where I can go and slow down and do things deliberately, which invariably gets my head turned straight back around from the cockamamie angles at which showbiz can leave it tilted. By focusing one of my day jobs, book writing, on my shop, I
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Can I cook a steak that would make Ron sit up and giggle into his bib? You bet your sweet ass. Would Ron enjoy my salmon? Hell no, son, where do you think you are, Paris, France? Ron’s distaste notwithstanding, salmon is damn delicious and quite good for you, so maybe we can all begin to comprehend that Ron is a well-wrought comedy character, whilst I am a human animal living in reality.
