799 days ago
by frank |
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Work Smart, Work Safe, and Live to Work The Wood
....so where does it all begin, this thing I call slabbin’ at wood?
What must one do? I’m sure we all know the how-when-where-why questions, and so after coming to terms with questions and answers such as these….one then goes out and sharpens their ability on the learning curve of belief. Now one may ask about the word ‘belief’, and rest assured we all believe in some-thing and in this case our belief of beli...
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801 days ago
by frank |
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Old Growth and Farm Living
....well I mean what can I say, farm living is working and selling, while finding time to look for some old growth//ancient ones and then workin’ at slabbin’ some tree blanks….
A little artistic enhancement added to an old growth mailbox….
....no Home Depot mailbox holder stand here. Cut this one out of the woods some years ago, left the bark on and planted the trunk in the ground. No-more veggies for sale though, berries are pas...
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803 days ago
by frank |
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Old Growth and the Ancient Ones
....’old growth’ that I have found!
While out Sunday afternoon in the forest here, we (my wife and I) set out to discover some new territory in the surrounding habitat of the woods and I happened to come upon some pines that were growing on an eastern slope of a hill. At the bottom of a ravine I first spotted an old pine that had escaped the logging crews of yesteryear. At first I thought this one was the only one out there, but after looking ...
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804 days ago
by frank |
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Blogging at “Eastern Thought”
”Building the Timber Frame House” —by Ted Benson and Part 1 the Past, chapter 1; page 3….Ted writes;
”If Japanese carpentry was highly evolved, it was also fiercely competitive. The craft was developed within a family guild system that maintained tight security over construction techniques and strict authority concerning procedure among it’s members. Intense rivalry between the major guilds had the positive effect of keeping the sta...
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805 days ago
by frank |
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Opening the Matrix
....it was in a seize the moment of size, that i found my oneness of redemption, where working wood has be-come the sole plate, and in my depth of wood soul i am completed….
—-how far one travels on this path,is but the understanding of how wide can i adjust, since the many will be found standing at the sidelines of tradition, speaking of what can and how should i finish my course….
—-while there once was a listening to these other’s, ...
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811 days ago
by frank |
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Imagination at Work
....clearing my head i reach for more space, and found in an-other canopy of needed growth, i start to breathe the intoxicating winds of high change, where all that i am is all that surrounds me here….
—-who speaks the language of trees, when all that surrounds me is the added moments of gathering more wood, and so those other’s preach of softwood and hardwood, while i am content to satisfy my longings of ‘old growth’....
—-when...
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814 days ago
by frank |
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Terpsichore Foliage Waunderings
….finding the lightness of your weight, i was stopped in my tracks by the rightness of your step, as you swung to and fro with elliptical ecstasy, till after being inspired once again i gave thanks….
I came across this one last evening out in the woods, practicing the art of dance and was immediately captivated by the beauty of what was going on….
....some have often wondered as to where I get my inspiration from and to those ...
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815 days ago
by frank |
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Level Playing Fields of Granular Wood
….mindless matter passes my way, seeking to enthrall as all-ready enchant my senses, since why have the else of speaking words begun to slow down, as i am captivated by imagination in this atmosphere of wood….
—-wood lives with quality at being, wood loves as quietly being, wood gives quantity in being, wood allows me quantium of being….
—-and so it was that one day, i walked away from where all the dead gathered at...
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827 days ago
by frank |
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The Wild of the Woods
….and so i walk the footsteps of those who precede my thinking, these are the spirit’s of rustic woodlands as found herein, and it is they who speak in an un-known tongue from the forest of living, a language that not many today have the time to learn away from the clatter….
—-clatter comes in many shapes and forms, but the duty of clatter is all-ways the same, and that is to distract one from the beauty of silence, needless to say that clat...
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828 days ago
by frank |
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Cultures of Sculptures
….this are the images of my heart, wherein lies the nourishment for my soul, taken across the canvas of landscaped forests of green, and so the green is a living color that breathes of what i am….
—-have you entertained the thought of venting as a leaf, on the back of an un-de-fined-un-re-fined wind, accepting for the moment of moving time your delay of free will, and so you ride the backside of this storm furore bearing gifts….
—-...
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