I love that the Earth has all these great materials for us to use according to our inclinations and abilities. You can take oak wood and make it into a dresser and put your clothes in it, and someday your grandson can put his clothes in it too. Or maybe he’ll cut it apart and make it into a treehouse or a TV table or a seagull diorama. Metal, the gorgeous stuff forged inside stars that caught a ride to earth on asteroids, lets us recycle it even more satisfyingly. Melt and re-melt, and repeat. Nothing is lost. Two-thousand years ago, my gold shamrock necklace might have been a coin a Roman tossed at a trader for a new horse. But nevermind that Roman: now it’s our time. Time for us to use these materials to make talismans to remind us of stuff, like what we care about, and why we think we’re here, and who and what we love. And more pointedly since this is an About Me, it’s my time, and hopefully some of these things I make resonate for you.
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