YouTube videos are great, but your library is still your best friend if you really need to dive deep.
The Home Library
A Schooner’s Story
what's the story behind the diorama? That's the thing about this type of presentation: there is a story.
Seed Catalogs
The catalogs started piling up in December, but by a long-standing rule, they stayed by the door until after Christmas. Then they were dropped without ceremony onto a pile of other catalogs until after the middle of January.
Ingrate
It's intolerable. I attempt to edit his work, and he undoes my added spaces, asterisks, periods, and commas.
Book Hunts
Since my interests as an anthropologist and as a woodcarver have tended towards the maritime, you'd expect that my library would be heavily weighted to those interests, and you'd be right. However, I used library sales and second-hand booksellers to do this for less than a fortune. I could and should recite a panegyric to praise libraries and their book sales. And if you are interested in arts and crafts, you should also.
Reads for a Winter’s Evening
Every winter, I look for entertaining and educational reads to fill the evening; I lost the TV habit many years ago.
One Liner Wednesday – 11/25
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." - E.B. White
Collections
My mentors were just that, mentors. Several couldn't afford the expense that having an actual apprentice would cost; others were not interested. But then by the 1960s, the old apprenticeship programs in crafts like carving were gone.
Choice
Some books make a difference. I've had a favorite game for years; I'll give a friend five minutes to pick the two volumes they'd take with them if they had to leave all the rest behind in an emergency.
Recharging: a reading list for a snowy winter
Literacy is critical to our advancement as artists
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