"Dave... don't be telling those kids that." Those kids being my Nephews & Nieces as if some of the misadventures of my past could corrupt their angelic souls. So I kept my mouth shut and let the other influences of this World make its mark on their minds & lives. I am pleased to say they all came out truly unique with their own individual voices and talents.
So those who told me to hush with my stories years ago surely can't fear the words I speak today causing any further damage.
In fifty years of life, you get a good cross-section of life & education about the stuff around you. Yet you are still young enough to possibly make some use of the education before you have to get a walker and wait for them to put you in the ground.
If you thought you were going to learn to build cabinets from this website. You are going to have to truly study my words as it was Cabinetmaking that taught me about life. When building & creating you have this time during which you are actually creating the product. My longtime friend Kenny, and I understand that the major creative work of the mind is done at this point, you have built the project in your head ... disassembled it looking for problem areas. Now you either start designing the next job in your mind or get in touch with the thoughts & feelings within yourself while you build. A meditative state maybe? In a vegetative world.
One of the first great lessons in cabinetmaking comes from learning to sand. So often people think anyone can sand, no big deal. Yeah... you would not believe the damage those same people can do with a piece of sandpaper. There is harmony within the process. Sanding is not just about the action of rubbing but about the feel, which your brain can sense from the tiniest nerves in your fingertips. If I wanted to cause you the greatest physical pain without killing you I would do it through your fingers, for even pain, drugs can't always stop the nerves in the fingers from feeling every small thing a Doctor does as he cleans & pushes the tissue back into place as he carefully tries to repair the damage you have done to them when they have an encounter with a moving piece of machinery connected to some type of blade or bit. The first few times you will scream out in pain unless you have actually dozed off from the lack of sleep during a marathon two-day work session. But as time goes by your mind will learn to deal with that initial shock of that pain as it races to your brain. After 30 years you will react with a sense of pain yet it will be more related to how it's really going to inconvenience you in the weeks ahead as the wound heals.
Those same fingers if taught to sand by feeling...which is greater then a sense of touch, and not a mechanical action, will allow you the ability to feel the richness of everything they touch in life. For as much as they can feel the greatest of pains, they are capable of feeling & giving the greatest of pleasures.
Believe me, there are multitudes in this World that will never learn to sand in their lifetime.
So those who told me to hush with my stories years ago surely can't fear the words I speak today causing any further damage.
In fifty years of life, you get a good cross-section of life & education about the stuff around you. Yet you are still young enough to possibly make some use of the education before you have to get a walker and wait for them to put you in the ground.
If you thought you were going to learn to build cabinets from this website. You are going to have to truly study my words as it was Cabinetmaking that taught me about life. When building & creating you have this time during which you are actually creating the product. My longtime friend Kenny, and I understand that the major creative work of the mind is done at this point, you have built the project in your head ... disassembled it looking for problem areas. Now you either start designing the next job in your mind or get in touch with the thoughts & feelings within yourself while you build. A meditative state maybe? In a vegetative world.
One of the first great lessons in cabinetmaking comes from learning to sand. So often people think anyone can sand, no big deal. Yeah... you would not believe the damage those same people can do with a piece of sandpaper. There is harmony within the process. Sanding is not just about the action of rubbing but about the feel, which your brain can sense from the tiniest nerves in your fingertips. If I wanted to cause you the greatest physical pain without killing you I would do it through your fingers, for even pain, drugs can't always stop the nerves in the fingers from feeling every small thing a Doctor does as he cleans & pushes the tissue back into place as he carefully tries to repair the damage you have done to them when they have an encounter with a moving piece of machinery connected to some type of blade or bit. The first few times you will scream out in pain unless you have actually dozed off from the lack of sleep during a marathon two-day work session. But as time goes by your mind will learn to deal with that initial shock of that pain as it races to your brain. After 30 years you will react with a sense of pain yet it will be more related to how it's really going to inconvenience you in the weeks ahead as the wound heals.
Those same fingers if taught to sand by feeling...which is greater then a sense of touch, and not a mechanical action, will allow you the ability to feel the richness of everything they touch in life. For as much as they can feel the greatest of pains, they are capable of feeling & giving the greatest of pleasures.
Believe me, there are multitudes in this World that will never learn to sand in their lifetime.
