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Read This Keeping Quiet Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop...

Read This Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. -Alphonse Karr Write About This Make a list of go...

Why are we waiting? We are waiting for those who have the disease to fight their fights all the way to the end. We are waiting for the virus no longer to fin...

Read This “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops - at all ~Emily Dickinson Write Abo...

Read This The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ~Lao Tzu The only thing we know for sure about the future is that it will come one day at a t...

Read This Your mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ~Maya An...

Read This Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not you...

Read This Be so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~ Lady Bird Johnson Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for...

Read This Pandemic a poem by Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cea...

We're at home now. We don't know for how long. We don't know what it will be like. We've never done this before. What we DO know is that the great sequester ...

Prepped and ready. Toilet paper and cans of beans, hand soap and pasta, paper towels and bags of chips. Here we go. But where are we going? Nowhere, of cours...

“Wood evolved as a functional tissue of plants and not as a material designed to satisfy the needs of woodworkers.”* And yet we woodworkers still get angry a...

If you want to build a log cabin out of slick, clean logs, you should harvest the trees in the summer, during the growing season. But if you want to cut a ro...

For some people the hardest thing to say is “I love you.” For others it’s “I’m sorry.” The most difficult words for me are “This is what it costs.” I can lov...

Sound affects me. And so it affects my work. There is a moment in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance when the narrator takes his bike to a mechanic bu...

“It’s not going to go,” Michael said. His face was hidden on the other side of the giant wardrobe. I was left to judge his mood from his voice alone, which w...

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children...

If you visit my wood shop and look around for a while, you'll probably notice them, and you'll probably say something. Something like, "Wow that's a lot of n...

Working wood is always a rhythm. The mallet strikes the chisel, then raises up, then strikes it again. The hand plane sweeps the board, pulls back, then swee...

I revisit The Missing Piece regularly, ever since a friend gave me the little book two decades ago. I see myself in the story. The little almost-circle thump...