Stories Part Two

Peace In The Valley

Everyday the wife and I pull an affirmation card. It is from deck of cards with a word or saying on it. It might be "I am Strong" or simply "Think." It is our little start to the day with our coffee where we sit and plan out what we are doing. It gives us something to think on or sometimes something to aspire too during a busy day.

Today I pulled a card and it said "Peace." The perfect card for a Sunday afternoon.

I have been away from the Internet the past few weeks. I haven't been feeling well but more importantly I am just tired of the constant nonsense that Chip describes in his last post. The non stop idiocy of the uninformed. You get it at family barbecues. At the check out line. At the store. Everywhere. It is exhausting.

I am tired of fighting with ignorant people. So I am trying something different. I am meditating. Gardening. Cooking. Writing. Resting. Trying to find some peace.

I know I get riled up when I see a blog post about something like the NFL or the Deep State attacking the President. I might blow off some steam now and again. But I have decided that I have to be more dedicated in finding something. That something?

Peace.

Furniture old and new

First of all, this has nothing to do with Al Capone, you mook, so fuhgedaboudit!

There is a furniture maker whose work I have admired for as long as I have been aware of it, Judy Kensley McKie. Even though she is a far up north Y*nkee, her work is awesome. I can't even begin to emulate nor imitate it. This is an example of what she does:

As interesting and contemporary as that piece looks, there are precedents going back to the olden days, not just to the time of Khufu, but to his momma, Queen Hetepheres. She had a chair but at some point over the last 2.5 millennia it had issues. They found pieces of it, and some over-credentialed and overpaid monkeys at Harvard decided to make a repro of the original. This is how it turned out:

Yeah, that doesn't look much like Miss Judy's chair, but wait - check out the detail under the arm of the chair:

Fluid bird form - impressive details, yep, Judy (can I call her Judy?) is mining an old vein in furniture design.

More about Ms. McKie's work here.

Details and audio-free video of the work done at Harvard.

And to my friends over at Shopbot, good on ya, lads, you are the best.

Rock the chair.