One Man's Woodcraft: Musings on Craft
Created | Updated Oct 8, 2010
Musings on Crafts
There is a need within us to connect with the earth, to connect with nature.
We are creative. Yes – all of us, in some form, to some degree.
Woodcraft is one of those things that has come down to us from our very beginnings, along with painting, claycraft (pottery, sculpture) and later stonecraft and then, well, pick your own.
I venture to assert that these things will not die out despite attempts by manufacturing industry to replicate (the best of?) what has gone before.
These things, along with a myriad of other crafts, will go down into history as they have come down to us.
Are you in doubt of this?
"But", you say. But, what about rocket science, what about brain surgery?
No arguments from here on that score but I'm not fitted out for things of that sort. My gifts are of the more mundane variety – just like the rest of us – and I enjoy using what I have to make the things I do.
The most satisfying things you can do (excluding that – it's too short-lived) involve coordination between brain, eye and hand – inception, design, planning and using learned skills to achieve a finished product.
The gifts you've been given reflect no credit on you. What matters is what you do with what you've got.
