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A new week! Four weeks of disengaging and redefining has caused many exchanges in the way we work (or don't work) according to both our circumstances and then too our individuality in making life work. Some of it is acceptable to us, by all accounts, I mean some

It's a subtle shift I see in wood beneath my plane. Shades between years in times past, where summers came and went and left behind a year's life recorded in two tones of light and dark, of warmth and the rains that filled the rivers and

A warp dried in in a prideful twist like a fist clenched in the face to resist another. The long plane rides the swell and clips off stroke-on-stroke all opposition and takes down the proud to a low point. Then comes the haltering of the clip, clip and the faltering

I am not sure how many of us can carry on working when our jobs rely on office buildings remote from our homes, fellow staff and then too machines that anchor us to a workplace of commerce. I am not sure anymore how many of us can actually handle the

If craft is the art of work, and I believe that that is what craft is, then we ourselves become a live canvass filled with an ever-changing palette of colour and texture. It puts our work and the way we work, the materials we harvest and garner, and the delivery

Many politicians are predicting the future in a way we have never seen before, relying mostly on experts and scientific specialists, health workers and others to steer us through Coronavirus pandemic. With Covid-19 on us, we are many of us distancing ourselves from our neighbours for the common good of

As I have grown older I have grown less tolerant. I think this to be symptomatic. Sharpening seems to me to have become an abrasive subject discussed by expert sellers and those seeking ever more knowledge. As an apprentice, the men had whetstones in boxes without grade-knowledge per se, but