🦋 Wish and desire
I've been reading Chris Pye's Woodcarving: Tools, Materials & Equipment and getting a fair bit out of it -- a lot of the content is stuff I had heard before in various places but his way of phrasing it seems quite apt and like it might stay with me longer -- like it get the meaning of it better than when it is batted around at WoodCentral. So today I went to his web site to see what is going on over there. Turns out he is making available for free (at least for now) download, a series of woodcarving manuals. I downloaded and started reading Learning to Carve and was struck by this observation on the third page: Many beginners have a head fantasy of learning to carve but really have no idea of hard work it might take to realise this simple wish. This is just about exactly the criticism I was making the other day of my own approach to making plans in life...So yeah, I like this guy and he speaks to me. I am going to continue reading his stuff and hopefully pick up some carving skills.
posted evening of Friday, July 8th, 2005
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