Straightening out twist ties and folding paper helps me think.
thousand year old bone necklace
crack vials
bone and glass
caps cast in gold
raw materials
Inspired by a thousand year old Native American bone necklace, Jan Yager crafts necklaces out of crack vials found in her Philadelphia neighborhood. We have a library copy of this series and it has some good stuff.
(images via Craft in America)
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to an Aging Knowledge Worker (via psychotherapy)
do not stand on top two steps
This fixed point would not support a bosun’s chair, but it does hold a mouse cable in place allowing just enough slack to be useful but not enough to snag or tangle. If you are at a new workplace thinking about knots and anchors, bosun’s chairs and the dangling feeling of every day life, I advise you not to absentmindedly print the words “fixed point” on the piece of blue painters tape that you use to resolve an annoying cabling issue. Your new coworkers will spend the rest of the day looking at you funny, and your feeble explanations for an innocuous scrawl will fail to satisfy or amuse them.
4/5 Quart
I found this old Waterfill and Frazier whiskey bottle in the woods. The distillery is no longer around, but I think they were famous for making prescription only “medicinal” bourbon during prohibition. Its capacity is only labeled in english units with no metric markings.
I am tempted to type a note on the clipper, find a cork, and drive over to the coast to send this bottle, older than I am, on the next leg of its journey. Maybe I will finish scrubbing it out; it can become my new bourbon decanter, and we will spend a few years together first.
evolutionary path
ape ancestor, mumblelard, harry houdini, ultraman, transdimensional being filled with spiders (from left to right)
also campfire glass, street glass, beach glass, river glass, blown glass (from left to right) and a one inch by three quarters inch oil painting of a mouse skull by David C Greene (far left)
