One of the myths with which a craftsperson who is also a business person must abide is that they do all that they do for love. After all, it’s art in a way, and artists are driven by an inner force that must be aired,…
Our picture for today is my daughter standing next a stone egg. This was taken at the Cornell Bird Sanctuary in Ithaca, NY last weekend. The egg is made of dry-laid slate meticulously fitted together. My daughter is made partly of me unglued most of…
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Over a year and a half ago, I laid my first wife to rest. I never thought I’d be referring to her that way. I thought of her as my wife, and that’s all. During…
My daughter, Lori Anne Bourgeois, had an excellent article today on the way perfectionism can cause a person to lose their grip on a project. A project is our way to expand our life into more and more areas of growth. It must be completed,…
When I was beginning as a craftsperson, I had many questions. Unfortunately, I avoided most of them because I was afraid they indicated how bad I was. On the other hand, fortunately, I was unable to evade all of them. Facing these questions was the…