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            <h2>10 Surprising Life Lessons We Could Learn From Bird School</h2>
            <div><h3>Flying isn’t one of the lessons (Sorry)</h3></div>
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    </div><p id="cb0e"><a href="undefined">R Tsambounieri Talarantas</a> has gifted us with several amazing stories. First is a stunning retelling of an ancient Greek folk story with Poe-like echoes, then a conversation about love, and finally a reflection on what we leave behind:</p><div id="0ef6" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Unconditional</h2>
            <div><h3>A Tale Of A Tell — Tell Heart</h3></div>
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            <h2>Little One</h2>
            <div><h3>You’ve asked me to define love for you but is that what you are really asking, little one? I’d think its safe to say…</h3></div>
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            <h2>While I lie Sleeping</h2>
            <div><h3>… a hundred years from now</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="ab95"><a href="undefined">Carlos Garbiras</a> has started something exciting and I am happy to be a small part of, and that is his chapter-by-chapter unveiling of a novel about entrepreneurial delusions. Here is is first chapter (he welcomes feedback):</p><div id="4841" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Ch 1 — Under The Big Top</h2>
            <div><h3>Novel-Draft Ch. 1: Of Checkbooks on Steroids and Other Law of Attraction Side-Effects</h3></div>
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    </div><p id="d5cc"><a href="undefined">Melissa Gouty</a> has written an amazing and informative essay about the humble wooden pencil, and a philosopher-poet you’d never associated with it, or with industry:</p><div id="1ebb" class="link-block">
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            <h2>How Beloved Writer, Thoreau, Carved His Words Into the American Psyche</h2>
            <div><h3>- with wooden pencils</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="c4e5"><a href="undefined">Suntonu Bhadra</a> is a first-time WotWU writer who has written and photographed an amazing poem about a woodcut illustration:</p><div id="9cf4" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Wooden Canvas On An Art School</h2>
            <div><h3>A Free-verse poetry</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="9eef"><a href="undefined">Mia Verita</a> has crafted a passionate poem that has set the walls of our humble digital home on fire:</p><div id="51b8" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Flames</h2>
            <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="57f3"><a href="undefined">Pablo Pereyra</a> is another first-time WotWU writer who has given us a wonderful and oddly erotic poem about mountain biking:</p><div id="55e5" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Making Clay With Dirt and Rain</h2>
            <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="edd5"><a href="undefined">Robert Trakofler</a> has written an amazing poem that expresses what many of us feel in today’s troubled times:</p><div id="d5b0" class="link-block">
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            <h2>No Pondering</h2>
            <div><h3>Political dissonance</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="548e"><a href="undefined">William J Spirdione</a> gifted us with a fantastic sonnet written kindly in response to my <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-blacksmith-of-ordon-4c344e1ad0f2?source=collection_home---4------10-----------------------">son’s prompt</a> last week:</p><div id="42e1" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Burning Maw</h2>
            <div><h3>A sonnet</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="e30d"><a href="undefined">John Griswold</a> has written a great review of a book all woodworkers should get on the fundamentals of joinery:</p><div id="9292" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Joined to Centuries of Woodworking</h2>
            <div><h3>Everything Old is New Again</h3></div>
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            <h2>My Daddy’s Wood Carvings</h2>
            <div><h3>His hobby gave him and others pleasure</h3></div>
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            <h2>For The Taking</h2>
            <div><h3>Inspirational poetry</h3></div>
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            <div><h3>A leafy tale</h3></div>
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            <h2>The Six W’s of Woodworking</h2>
            <div><h3>A poem</h3></div>
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    </div><p id="9c8e">Thank you all for your fantastic stories this past week. I look forward to more from you all.</p><h1 id="18c1">The writers and followers of our WotWU pub…</h1><p id="78d6">I’d like to take a moment to call out all the WotWU writers and followers to say thank you and call attention to their work and words. Please let me know if I have mistakenly omitted anyone. Here are all the WotWU writers:</p><p id="1b17"><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">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="d13a"><a hr

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Teo</a>, <a href="undefined">America Zed</a>, <a href="undefined">Michele Thomas</a>, <a href="undefined">Melissa Gouty</a>, <a href="undefined">Mark Starlin</a>, <a href="undefined">James Knight</a>, <a href="undefined">Suntonu Bhadra</a>, <a href="undefined">Gunnar De Winter</a>, <a href="undefined">Imad</a>, <a href="undefined">J.D. Harms</a>, <a href="undefined">Hollie Petit, Ph.D.</a>, <a href="undefined">Alan Cope</a>, <a href="undefined">Yve Laran</a>, <a href="undefined">Jean Carfantan</a>, <a href="undefined">Bill Abbate</a>, <a href="undefined">R Tsambounieri Talarantas</a></p><p id="82cd"><a href="undefined">Sarah Cords</a>, <a href="undefined">Myriam Ben Salem</a>, <a href="undefined">Bruce Noll</a>, <a href="undefined">Amy Jasek</a>, <a href="undefined">Rebecca Ruth Gould</a>, <a href="undefined">Muhammad Nasrullah Khan</a>, <a href="undefined">Christine Sander</a>, <a href="undefined">Ana-Maria Schweitzer</a>, <a href="undefined">r.j. quirk</a>, <a href="undefined">Shanna Loga</a>, <a href="undefined">Michael Stang</a>, <a href="undefined">Mia Verita</a></p><p id="eb07"><a href="undefined">Michael Burg, MD</a>, <a href="undefined">James Goydos, MD</a>, <a href="undefined">Kasun Ranasinghe</a>, <a href="undefined">Grey Hen With A Pen</a>, <a href="undefined">Citizen Upgrade</a>, <a href="undefined">Joshua Gane</a>, <a href="undefined">K. Barrett</a></p><p id="146b"><a href="undefined">Svetlana Smith</a>, <a href="undefined">Rosy Gee</a>, <a href="undefined">Anjali Samaraweera</a>, <a href="undefined">Dr Ludovic Gros MD</a>, <a href="undefined">Courtney Burry</a>, <a href="undefined">Tom Belskie</a>, <a href="undefined">Carolyn Hastings</a>, <a href="undefined">Don Worsham</a></p><p id="a650">I also want to call out the followers listed below.</p><p id="cc10">For all of you — I invite you to write to me at [email protected] and let me know if you want to write, remain a reader, or just to say hi (I would like that anyway so I can add you to my WotWU contact list).</p><p id="ad90">So here are the people following WotWU but who are not writers (and I hope will be), and who I thank for their time and support:</p><p id="d9a2"><a href="undefined">Darrin Atkins</a>, <a href="undefined">Herr Jurke</a>, <a href="undefined">Puzi</a>, <a href="undefined">Shaun Brennan</a>, <a href="undefined">Sean Griffith</a>, <a href="undefined">Ackysan</a>, <a href="undefined">Daniel Probst</a>, <a href="undefined">Dave Winfield</a>, <a href="undefined">Nathan Wertman</a>, <a href="undefined">Dhan S</a>, <a href="undefined">Aaron Quist</a>, <a href="undefined">Gerard Doorakkers</a>, <a href="undefined">Heide Van Voorhis</a>, <a href="undefined">Karen Downton</a>, <a href="undefined">Pramiti Secretary</a>, <a href="undefined">Antonino Sabetta</a>, <a href="undefined">William Brant</a>, <a href="undefined">Mrplastik</a>, <a href="undefined">Franciscohidalgo</a>, <a href="undefined">R eader</a>, <a href="undefined">Alan White</a>, <a href="undefined">Wobbly Jester</a>, <a href="undefined">Pdimanno</a>, <a href="undefined">C Balcombe</a>, <a href="undefined">AccordingTo Joesan</a>, <a href="undefined">Connie Song</a>, <a href="undefined">Bella Bello</a>, <a href="undefined">Leeleeladybug</a>, <a href="undefined">Bruno Aparecido Barbosa</a>, <a href="undefined">Dr. Fatima Imam</a>, <a href="undefined">Araceli Torres</a>, <a href="undefined">Lacey Weatherall-Andrews</a>, <a href="undefined">Jerry</a>, <a href="undefined">David William</a>, <a href="undefined">Emiko Takeuchi</a>, <a href="undefined">Don Be</a>, <a href="undefined">Judi duvall</a>, <a href="undefined">David Reeves</a>, <a href="undefined">Diane Gillespie</a>, <a href="undefined">Steve Williams</a>, <a href="undefined">Rhonda Skinner</a>, <a href="undefined">Tom Hanratty</a>, <a href="undefined">r.j. quirk</a>, <a href="undefined">Carmelo San Paolo</a>, <a href="undefined">Corinne Davis</a>, <a href="undefined">Ananto Prasetyo</a>, <a href="undefined">A</a>, <a href="undefined">Michael Smith</a></p><h1 id="4900">A favor from you all…</h1><p id="b771">Please follow me on the various social platforms so I can prime the social media pump and be of more service to you all by broadcasting your stories. In the meantime, please take the time to tweet or otherwise broadcast your fellow writer’s works. Thank you to those already doing so.</p><p id="b3ea">These are my accounts:</p><p id="9397">Medium at <a href="https://scienceduuude.medium.com/">https://scienceduuude.medium.com</a></p><p id="025b">Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/DuuudeScience">https://twitter.com/DuuudeScience</a></p><p id="63a6">Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sciences.duude.1/">https://www.facebook.com/sciences.duude.1/</a></p><p id="c447">Thank you all for joining our humble home for wayward words. I hope this is a wonderful welcoming place for your stories and your reading pleasure.</p><p id="ddde">From my woody heart to yours,</p><p id="e190">Science Duuude</p><h1 id="5603">P.S.1: Previous WotWU update letters…</h1><p id="cc18">If you want to see the earlier works bundled up and tied with a bow, here are the previous five WotWU summaries:</p><div id="f744" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/proudly-launching-new-woodworking-publication-300b45115637"> <div> <div> <h2>Proudly Launching New Woodworking Publication</h2> <div><h3>Please check out the beautiful new stories on our new publication…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*DK6iG5Lt0p2HsEa4Jns_cg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="8d6d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/latest-on-woodworkers-of-the-world-unite-94c0c6ba3df1"> <div> <div> <h2>Latest on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!</h2> <div><h3>Checking in on the latest amazing stories and poems on our new publication…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*49B8Nq7EFzlEmNwyYmggkA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="d4ea" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/stories-on-woodworkers-of-the-world-unite-2c1f3186287b"> <div> <div> <h2>Stories on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!</h2> <div><h3>Update on the latest amazing stories and poems on our new publication…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*O_MiDZM-f7miHONjpbrMVg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="fbf9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/more-stories-on-woodworkers-of-the-world-unite-fd7570e1d2b3"> <div> <div> <h2>More Stories on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!</h2> <div><h3>The latest work on our new publication (Jan 25–31)…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*O_MiDZM-f7miHONjpbrMVg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="5702" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/newest-on-woodworkers-of-the-world-unite-f2390b92280a"> <div> <div> <h2>Newest on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!</h2> <div><h3>The latest work on our new publication (Feb 1–7)…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*O_MiDZM-f7miHONjpbrMVg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="77d8">P.S.2: A few other duuudely pieces…</h1><p id="5cab">I have a few other recent pieces that I wrote for WotWU that I hope you enjoy as a final gift before you go — and also to emphasize the breadth of topics we cover here:</p><div id="c912" class="link-block"> <a 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Valentine Edition of Woodworkers of the World Unite!!! #6

The latest work on our new publication (Feb 7–14)…

The heart of WotWU!!

From my wooden heart to yours of flesh and blood, Happy Valentine’s Day. I love y’all!

Thank you readers, writers and followers of WotWU. You are truly the heart of our humble digital home.

Please, let me ask up front here, contact me at [email protected] to become a writer if I haven’t reached out to you, and also so I can add you to the WotWU contacts list.

Since this is Valentines Day, a day that I think causes most of us to become writers, to expunge the suffering and loneliness inflicted by a commercial day of forced amity, I thought I’d customize my standardized prompts. The point of Love is, supposedly, that we do things for others. So I have appended “someone” to each prompt as you will see below:

Prompt 1: anything you’ve made for someone. Whether from paper, glass, metal, ceramic, wood, or the heart of neutron stars, please write about, and show (photos, drawings, video) your projects. I will post such stories under the Wood page — please check other stories here for ideas.
Prompt 2: anything you do for someone. Whether art, craft, career, learning, please explain how you do what you do. I will post those under the Work page — please check that page for ideas.
Prompt 3: anything funny, unique, or surprising which will make someone stop and savor that moment… I will post those under the Wit page.
Prompt 4: anything about someone else’s life. Especially about your special someone, your family and friends, things which explain how you navigate the eddies and currents that push and pull us all. I will post those under the Wisdom page.
Prompt 5: anything poetic, wondrous, and beautiful for someone’s sake, I welcome with an open heart and will post on the Wonder page.
Prompt 6: anything your kids (of any age) make or write or record, I will treasure and post on the Wee Wuns Works page.

The Humble Home for Wayward Words…

These are the latest stories that y’all have submitted and I am honored to host on WotWU.

May I request each of you to:

Read your fellow writer’s works
Clap (you can give up to 50 claps), and comment.
Please tweet or post on Faacebook a few of your fellow-writer’s stories on your social media. My socal media presence is still very much embryonic, and I need all of you to help for a bit until I can be more effective publicizing your work. I also forget often — so anything each of you does will help all of us.

Since last week’s updates, we have published work by the following:

un p'tit je ne sais quoi has submitted numerous wonderful multimedia poems on love and passion, something that empowers woodworkers:

stuck in the middle with you

free-verse │ your lips sigh to me politely

medium.com

claim me

free-verse │it’s sexy to make me miss you

medium.com

call me anytime

vers-libre

medium.com

Patrick M. Ohana has been by far the most prolific contributor, giving us two poems each day, wonderful explorations of AI, and giving a much needed voice to our brother trees (I only post the first three of the week here — please check out the main WotWU site to read the others):

Devil Incarnate

A beast’s tanka

medium.com

Hearts

A woody thought

medium.com

Genius

Not all the time

medium.com

The Secret Aspirant has gifted us with a couple wonderful pieces, one a conversation between AIs, and the other giving us some lighthearted options for a lonely Valentine’s Day:

The Magic Wisdom from Trees

Even A.I. couldn’t mess that up, could it?

medium.com

The Power Within You(r Trees)

Sometimes digging deeper shouldn’t be futile

medium.com

Synthia S. has given us a wonderfully personal and spooky woodworking story:

The Spooky Woodworking Room

Musings From Middle School

medium.com

Bridget Webber has written a beautiful poem celebrating the ancient and magical Yew:

The Mystic Yew

A Poem

medium.com

J.D. Harms has contributed a couple amazing and personal poems that you just have to read and experience:

Sidetracked

A Poem

medium.com

Conscripted

A Poem

medium.com

David Rudder has given us an atmospheric and evocative poem, like the will-o-the-wisp he writes about:

Will-o’-the-Wisp

Drifting like a soft candle light

medium.com

R. Rangan PhD has written a couple pieces for us, a wise and wonderful essay about family, mindfulness, and knitting, and a haiku with fascinating science explaining how some animals hibernate:

How I Discovered True Meaning of Buddha-Nature One Yarn Roll at a Time

Knitting, Meditation & Connection

medium.com

Extreme Survival

A squirrelly SciKu*

medium.com

K. Barrett has given us a couple of wonderful pieces about making things from wood and learning from our bird-brethren:

The Scoop on This Scoop

This is a handmade scoop

medium.com

10 Surprising Life Lessons We Could Learn From Bird School

Flying isn’t one of the lessons (Sorry)

medium.com

R Tsambounieri Talarantas has gifted us with several amazing stories. First is a stunning retelling of an ancient Greek folk story with Poe-like echoes, then a conversation about love, and finally a reflection on what we leave behind:

Unconditional

A Tale Of A Tell — Tell Heart

medium.com

Little One

You’ve asked me to define love for you but is that what you are really asking, little one? I’d think its safe to say…

medium.com

While I lie Sleeping

… a hundred years from now

medium.com

Carlos Garbiras has started something exciting and I am happy to be a small part of, and that is his chapter-by-chapter unveiling of a novel about entrepreneurial delusions. Here is is first chapter (he welcomes feedback):

Ch 1 — Under The Big Top

Novel-Draft Ch. 1: Of Checkbooks on Steroids and Other Law of Attraction Side-Effects

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Melissa Gouty has written an amazing and informative essay about the humble wooden pencil, and a philosopher-poet you’d never associated with it, or with industry:

How Beloved Writer, Thoreau, Carved His Words Into the American Psyche

- with wooden pencils

medium.com

Suntonu Bhadra is a first-time WotWU writer who has written and photographed an amazing poem about a woodcut illustration:

Wooden Canvas On An Art School

A Free-verse poetry

medium.com

Mia Verita has crafted a passionate poem that has set the walls of our humble digital home on fire:

Flames

A Poem

medium.com

Pablo Pereyra is another first-time WotWU writer who has given us a wonderful and oddly erotic poem about mountain biking:

Making Clay With Dirt and Rain

A Poem

medium.com

Robert Trakofler has written an amazing poem that expresses what many of us feel in today’s troubled times:

No Pondering

Political dissonance

medium.com

William J Spirdione gifted us with a fantastic sonnet written kindly in response to my son’s prompt last week:

Burning Maw

A sonnet

medium.com

John Griswold has written a great review of a book all woodworkers should get on the fundamentals of joinery:

Joined to Centuries of Woodworking

Everything Old is New Again

medium.com

Terry Mansfield has written for us a lovely poem about his father’s pocket knife and the carving he used to do with it:

My Daddy’s Wood Carvings

His hobby gave him and others pleasure

medium.com

America Zed has written a beautiful and uplifting poem — which I think we all need right now:

For The Taking

Inspirational poetry

medium.com

John Levin has written a wonderfully quirky, light, yet deep tale of what it means to be an aspen/human:

The Aspen Who Joined Us

A leafy tale

medium.com

Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) has written a most wonderful poem that explores the 6W’s of Woodworking:

The Six W’s of Woodworking

A poem

medium.com

Thank you all for your fantastic stories this past week. I look forward to more from you all.

The writers and followers of our WotWU pub…

I’d like to take a moment to call out all the WotWU writers and followers to say thank you and call attention to their work and words. Please let me know if I have mistakenly omitted anyone. Here are all the WotWU writers:

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, Jim Mason, Adelia Ritchie, PhD, Nuno Fabiao, JP Popham, William J Spirdione, Vincent Van Patten

Franco Amati, rsteiner, Rozalia Rafailidou, Robin Richey, Patrick M. Ohana, Joanna Vang, un p’tit je ne sais quoi, Paroma Sen, Cocoa Griot, Joseph Lieungh, Shalini C, Padma Bern, Robert Trakofler, SamaFathima, Synthia Satkuna, Jasmine Poulton, Mary Holden, Dandy Lioness, Trisha Traughber, Kevin Jahleel Ishimwe

John Levin, David Rudder, Dr. Jackie Greenwood, Daniel A. Teo, America Zed, Michele Thomas, Melissa Gouty, Mark Starlin, James Knight, Suntonu Bhadra, Gunnar De Winter, Imad, J.D. Harms, Hollie Petit, Ph.D., Alan Cope, Yve Laran, Jean Carfantan, Bill Abbate, R Tsambounieri Talarantas

Sarah Cords, Myriam Ben Salem, Bruce Noll, Amy Jasek, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Muhammad Nasrullah Khan, Christine Sander, Ana-Maria Schweitzer, r.j. quirk, Shanna Loga, Michael Stang, Mia Verita

Michael Burg, MD, James Goydos, MD, Kasun Ranasinghe, Grey Hen With A Pen, Citizen Upgrade, Joshua Gane, K. Barrett

Svetlana Smith, Rosy Gee, Anjali Samaraweera, Dr Ludovic Gros MD, Courtney Burry, Tom Belskie, Carolyn Hastings, Don Worsham

I also want to call out the followers listed below.

For all of you — I invite you to write to me at [email protected] and let me know if you want to write, remain a reader, or just to say hi (I would like that anyway so I can add you to my WotWU contact list).

So here are the people following WotWU but who are not writers (and I hope will be), and who I thank for their time and support:

Darrin Atkins, Herr Jurke, Puzi, Shaun Brennan, Sean Griffith, Ackysan, Daniel Probst, Dave Winfield, Nathan Wertman, Dhan S, Aaron Quist, Gerard Doorakkers, Heide Van Voorhis, Karen Downton, Pramiti Secretary, Antonino Sabetta, William Brant, Mrplastik, Franciscohidalgo, R eader, Alan White, Wobbly Jester, Pdimanno, C Balcombe, AccordingTo Joesan, Connie Song, Bella Bello, Leeleeladybug, Bruno Aparecido Barbosa, Dr. Fatima Imam, Araceli Torres, Lacey Weatherall-Andrews, Jerry, David William, Emiko Takeuchi, Don Be, Judi duvall, David Reeves, Diane Gillespie, Steve Williams, Rhonda Skinner, Tom Hanratty, r.j. quirk, Carmelo San Paolo, Corinne Davis, Ananto Prasetyo, A, Michael Smith

A favor from you all…

Please follow me on the various social platforms so I can prime the social media pump and be of more service to you all by broadcasting your stories. In the meantime, please take the time to tweet or otherwise broadcast your fellow writer’s works. Thank you to those already doing so.

These are my accounts:

Medium at https://scienceduuude.medium.com

Twitter at https://twitter.com/DuuudeScience

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

Thank you all for joining our humble home for wayward words. I hope this is a wonderful welcoming place for your stories and your reading pleasure.

From my woody heart to yours,

Science Duuude

P.S.1: Previous WotWU update letters…

If you want to see the earlier works bundled up and tied with a bow, here are the previous five WotWU summaries:

Proudly Launching New Woodworking Publication

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

medium.com

Latest on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!

Checking in on the latest amazing stories and poems on our new publication…

medium.com

Stories on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!

Update on the latest amazing stories and poems on our new publication…

medium.com

Newest on Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!

The latest work on our new publication (Feb 1–7)…

medium.com

P.S.2: A few other duuudely pieces…

I have a few other recent pieces that I wrote for WotWU that I hope you enjoy as a final gift before you go — and also to emphasize the breadth of topics we cover here: