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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Boatbuilding as a Full Contact Sport
Using the linear planer is intense. I’ve adopted the role of board puller which means I’m face and eyes into the sawdust. I think I like it because it reminds me of skiing across Greenland or Sweden when we faced … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, boatbuilding, dory, Winterton, Wooden Boat Museum
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Finding Centre and Other Life Lessons from Boatbuilding
Day three of boatbuilding school at the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador has come to an end and we’ve learned many more skills, ideas, and vocabulary today. We’ve focused on finding centre from almost minute one of the … Continue reading
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From Stem to Stern
Marian, Michael, and I are spending this week at the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador in Winterton learning how to build a Grandy Dory (pictured above). I’ve been trying to get to a workshop here for a few … Continue reading
I’m Always Climbing A Mountain or “How I climb anything is how I climb everything…”
If I said to you that I was following an exercise program with discipline, eating food of the highest nutritional quality, making sure that I’m getting lots of sleep, doing lots of body care, and seeing progress each day, what … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #1280 It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure…
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. –Joseph Campbell
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Visual Soliloquy #1279 If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind ?”
If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?” –Mary Ann Pietzker
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Visual Soliloquy #1278 Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us…
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ― David Richo photo Credit: Megan Frost
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