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um.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*wWU2E50LR_OfUWBA)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="2051"><a href="undefined">Anthony Lawrence</a> wrote a wonderful, funny personal recollection of his father’s brilliant career as a woodworker:</p><div id="1414" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/theoretically-i-have-some-mad-woodworking-skillz-35938b3d1e3f"> <div> <div> <h2>Theoretically I Have Some Mad Woodworking Skillz</h2> <div><h3>I’m just too clumsy to make use of them</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*VvJcgNsMTEXg3pOmmZ6gwA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="0da2"><a href="undefined">Jim Mason</a> wrote a spritely ode to the crafts, imagining our ancient ancestors who crafted the ephemera we can only imagine since only their stone tools survive to be uncovered by the archaeologist’s pick and brush:</p><div id="6b94" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/in-praise-of-woodworking-and-plant-weaving-our-oldest-crafts-3274c95eb97f"> <div> <div> <h2>In Praise of Woodworking and Plant Weaving, Our Oldest Crafts</h2> <div><h3>Although my surname is Mason, I yield to people of even older crafts: woodworkers and weavers of flexible plant…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*lQ18odvtbUXtsd9-rL2jqQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="73e5">Next, <a href="undefined">Anthi Psomiadou</a> conjured up a stunning poem about the wooden heart of Zeus’s statue:</p><div id="9d4b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/phidias-hand-divine-art-de0bb0a5b9de"> <div> <div> <h2>Phidias’ Hand - Divine Art</h2> <div><h3>Wood, gold, ivory, and celestial influence</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*6nFUrQzQE6r3cNTcmel0_g.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="7bf3">In the Wee Wuns Works page is my son’s first contribution to Medium, and of course to WotWU, about Fred’s terrible day:</p><div id="4f3f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/freds-terrible-day-304787252f9d"> <div> <div> <h2>Fred’s Terrible Day</h2> <div><h3>My son’s first Medium story…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*QGmXPbiS6EQzCAtV-2dv7w.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="db2a"><a href="undefined">Vincent Van Patten</a> gifted us a beautiful poem about freedom, using his word-brush to paint a scenery of old-growth forests and gnarled roots:</p><div id="424f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/freedom-lies-where-our-past-breaks-8273350eed05"> <div> <div> <h2>Freedom Lies Where Our Past Breaks</h2> <div><h3>A poem on breaking away from the withered roots of our past</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*o96eH2WmsycoCaic)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="313b">And finally (as of this writing, 2021–01–13, 8pm EST), <a href="undefined">Jonah Lightwhale</a> wrote a wonderful poem about our tiny and lonely planet wandering alone in the vastness o

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f space:</p><div id="ecc2" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/lonely-weeny-spaceship-baf5448823b8"> <div> <div> <h2>Lonely weeny spaceship</h2> <div><h3>Treat her with care</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*CEZdT7ckRFU4hedH)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="d2d8">Please take a moment to check out these stories, support them, and be inspired to write one of your own for WotWU.</p><h1 id="294e">The writers…</h1><p id="c0ae">I want to take a moment to call out the writers for WotWU though of course you can find them listed on the page under the “archive” tab at the bottom of the page.</p><p id="1f16"><a href="undefined">John Griswold</a>, <a href="undefined">Herr Jurke</a>, <a href="undefined">Christopher Anderson</a>, <a href="undefined">Walkey walkey</a>, <a href="undefined">Tim Skellett</a>, <a href="undefined">Matt Ray</a>, <a href="undefined">Lee Ameka</a>, <a href="undefined">Johnschlue</a>, <a href="undefined">Donna L Roberts, PhD (Psych Pstuff)</a>, <a href="undefined">Dhan S</a>, <a href="undefined">Dan Stout @boxyourbuddy</a>, <a href="undefined">Venkat</a>, <a href="undefined">Gerard Doorakkers</a>, <a href="undefined">Bridget Webber</a>, <a href="undefined">Madison Hunter</a>, <a href="undefined">R. Rangan PhD</a>, <a href="undefined">Frank Sturges</a>, <a href="undefined">Lori Lamothe</a>, <a href="undefined">Andrea Juillerat-Olvera</a>, <a href="undefined">Susannah MacKinnie</a>, <a href="undefined">Carlos Garbiras</a>, <a href="undefined">Terry Mansfield</a>, <a href="undefined">Puzi</a>, <a href="undefined">kurt gasbarra</a>, <a href="undefined">The Secret Aspirant</a>, <a href="undefined">Panos Grigorakakis</a>, <a href="undefined">Jonah Lightwhale</a>, <a href="undefined">James G Brennan</a>, <a href="undefined">Pablo Pereyra</a>, <a href="undefined">Upasana Sharma</a>, <a href="undefined">Genius Turner</a>, <a href="undefined">Skanda Vivek</a>, <a href="undefined">Anthi Psomiadou</a>, <a href="undefined">Lucy The Eggcademic (she/her)</a>, <a href="undefined">Shrish Tariq</a>, <a href="undefined">Anthony Lawrence</a>, <a href="undefined">Jim Mason</a>, <a href="undefined">Adelia Ritchie, PhD</a>, <a href="undefined">Nuno Fabiao</a>, <a href="undefined">JP Popham</a>, <a href="undefined">William J Spirdione</a>, <a href="undefined">Vincent Van Patten</a></p><p id="0a11">To the current writers, you honor me by joining my humble home for wayward words. I look forward to making a wonderful welcoming place for your children, your stories.</p><p id="5f35">And speaking of children, I also invite you to submit stories or artwork from your kids, or pets or even your plants. Ben would like company on his page.</p><p id="bc2f">To all others, please follow WotWU and these writers and read their amazing works. And please consider writing for us here as well. From my woody heart to yours…</p><p id="abd7">Best,</p><p id="1446">Science Duuude</p><p id="3783">Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/DuuudeScience">https://twitter.com/DuuudeScience</a></p><p id="22c2">Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sciences.duude.1/">https://www.facebook.com/sciences.duude.1/</a></p><p id="a2aa">Email at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p><p id="60e0">P.s., please check out one of my own tangentially-related-to-wood stories in WotWU:</p><div id="348c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-beauty-of-bones-e4114876c41b"> <div> <div> <h2>The Beauty of Bones</h2> <div><h3>Inspiration from simplicity and the skeletal scaffolding of wood and bone…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*fd_Zl4aNTZktSp-SlkQSdg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Proudly Launching New Woodworking Publication #1

Please check out the beautiful new stories on our new publication…

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Thank you!!!

I am stunned, honored, and totally in love with you all! For those of you who have done so already Thank You for joining, and for submitting your stories to the new publication Woodworkers of the World Unite!! Fondly known as WotWU. All of you, please check it out here:

For those of you who have not yet done so, please follow, and I invite you to submit your stories as well. If you read what’s been published, you’ll see that some of these wonderful pieces are only tangentially related to wood.

I have pages titled Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder as well as Wee Wuns Works for your kid’s contributions… pages which might easily entail topics totally unrelated to wood, yet still contain its beauty and radiance by other means.

Perhaps you are a carpenter of words. Perhaps you have insights into different arts and crafts which might still be relevant to woodworking. Perhaps your appreciation of sunsets strikes the same nerves and visual cortex as a new piece of finished wood…

Works of stunning beauty and wonder…

Please let me introduce you to some of the works I am honored to host on WotWU.

The first story submitted is John Griswold‘s fantastic introduction into making your own shave horse which is a clamp/bench combination often used by chairmakers and others who hand-make lots of round pieces like spindles and stretchers from green wood:

Next is Lee Ameka‘s beautiful and touching story of family and remembrance through crafts. Lee is a wonderful poet I met here on Medium whose work thawed my lifelong aversion to poetry. I am honored that she wrote this story with such a strong poetic heart so even I can appreciate it:

Anthony Lawrence wrote a wonderful, funny personal recollection of his father’s brilliant career as a woodworker:

Jim Mason wrote a spritely ode to the crafts, imagining our ancient ancestors who crafted the ephemera we can only imagine since only their stone tools survive to be uncovered by the archaeologist’s pick and brush:

Next, Anthi Psomiadou conjured up a stunning poem about the wooden heart of Zeus’s statue:

In the Wee Wuns Works page is my son’s first contribution to Medium, and of course to WotWU, about Fred’s terrible day:

Vincent Van Patten gifted us a beautiful poem about freedom, using his word-brush to paint a scenery of old-growth forests and gnarled roots:

And finally (as of this writing, 2021–01–13, 8pm EST), Jonah Lightwhale wrote a wonderful poem about our tiny and lonely planet wandering alone in the vastness of space:

Please take a moment to check out these stories, support them, and be inspired to write one of your own for WotWU.

The writers…

I want to take a moment to call out the writers for WotWU though of course you can find them listed on the page under the “archive” tab at the bottom of the page.

John Griswold, Herr Jurke, Christopher Anderson, Walkey walkey, Tim Skellett, Matt Ray, Lee Ameka, Johnschlue, Donna L Roberts, PhD (Psych Pstuff), Dhan S, Dan Stout @boxyourbuddy, Venkat, Gerard Doorakkers, Bridget Webber, Madison Hunter, R. Rangan PhD, Frank Sturges, Lori Lamothe, Andrea Juillerat-Olvera, Susannah MacKinnie, Carlos Garbiras, Terry Mansfield, Puzi, kurt gasbarra, The Secret Aspirant, Panos Grigorakakis, Jonah Lightwhale, James G Brennan, Pablo Pereyra, Upasana Sharma, Genius Turner, Skanda Vivek, Anthi Psomiadou, Lucy The Eggcademic (she/her), Shrish Tariq, Anthony Lawrence, Jim Mason, Adelia Ritchie, PhD, Nuno Fabiao, JP Popham, William J Spirdione, Vincent Van Patten

To the current writers, you honor me by joining my humble home for wayward words. I look forward to making a wonderful welcoming place for your children, your stories.

And speaking of children, I also invite you to submit stories or artwork from your kids, or pets or even your plants. Ben would like company on his page.

To all others, please follow WotWU and these writers and read their amazing works. And please consider writing for us here as well. From my woody heart to yours…

Best,

Science Duuude

Twitter at https://twitter.com/DuuudeScience

Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sciences.duude.1/

Email at [email protected]

P.s., please check out one of my own tangentially-related-to-wood stories in WotWU:

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