I heard that when someone asked Michelangelo how he sculpted his stunning, larger-than-life statue of David, the artist replied, “I just looked at the marble block and cut away anything that didn’t look like David.” A clear vision of the final product is crucial in most forms of art. In
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It’s Daddy’s birthday. I didn’t remember until I was writing the story of the new black and white necklace I finished this morning. It’s the only one so far with two names. I wanted to make a black and white necklace—small white cubes alternating with narrow black spacer beads. To
I’m making progress—and rather quickly too. Here’s the update as of June 15, 2011, smack in the middle of the year. Project 1: Eternal River, Volume III I’m in the third edit. Always surprising how many things I missed. It’s getting to be fun now, because I get to sculpt
Three projects long overdue are now coming into being with a lot of help from my friends. Project 1: Eternal River, Volume III I started working on this seven-volume, six-generation memoir ten or fifteen years ago. I can’t remember anymore. Volume I is the joining of the lives of Tom
Once, long ago when I lived on a dead end dirt road, I noticed that the weeds that crowded the roadside were full of color. Though I had a busy schedule, I chose to stop and examine those masses of purple. To my delight, I found tiny bells with golden