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craftsmanship
"Keep pace with the
Soul of the Earth, embrace as a
friend the seasons.
Step into the procession of life
marching towards the infinite.
When you pioneer catalysis the
whispering of the hours turns to
music.
Which of
you would be silent when all else
sings together in unison?
Always you have been told that
work is a curse and
labor a misfortune.
To fulfill the
Dream assigned when the Dream was Born is truly loving
life.
There are those who see birth
as an affliction and the flesh a curse,
I answer that naught but
the sweat of your brow shall wash that
away.
You have been
told by Reptilian followers of Mammon
life is darkness.
I say that
life is indeed darkness
except when there is desire to live.
Yet all desire to live is blind
unless there is adequate
knowledge;
all academic
knowledge worthless until it can be properly applied.
Weave wholecloth with
logic threads
drawn from your heart.
Build an abode with passion
and rest soundly in that dwelling.
Sowing seeds with tenderness
reaps a harvest with joy.
It is to charge all things you
fashion with a breath of your own
spirit.
He alone is great who
turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter.
-adapted from
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
"Without the opportunity
to learn through the hands, the
world remains abstract and distant, and
the passions for learning will not be
engaged.
A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic
rather than to accumulate academic
credentials is seen as eccentric, if not
self-destructive." - Matthew
B. Crawford
"People are retreating from whirlwinds – the
whirlwinds of production
demands and the whirlwinds of
an unstable economy." - Barry Glassner, USC
Craftsmanship offers economic stability,
personal and emotional satisfaction.
Craftsmen feel an urgency to
build aesthetically pleasing
objects of value.
Craftsman are dedicated to providing the highest quality product.
Craftswomen take the time to carefully execute each and every process .
The life style a craftswoman or craftsman rewards the individual with a
feeling of contentment in
living a meaningful hands-on
existence.
"More individuals are going back to work with their hands
than ever before. There has been a growing renaissance in the crafts." - Sam
Maloof
It is unfortunate that craftsmanship has been denigrated by the
marketers.
"Today our lifestyle is supported by our
income, instead of our income having to stay up with our lifestyle.
A one individual business is really a life
form." - Ann Reiss
A craftsman takes pride in work whereas
the laboror is there for his
paycheck and may never even touch the
manufactured object.
A
craftsman works on the human scale.
"Moments of elation are
counterbalanced with failures.
Both vividly taking place right before
your eyes.
With immediate high stakes manual trades elicit heedful
absorption in work.
They are punctuated by
moments of pleasure that take
place against a darker backdrop: a keen awareness of catastrophe as
an always-present possibility.
The core experience is one of individual
responsibility.
An
ethic of attention develops in the trades - an
enlightened
self-interest.
The
good life comes in a variety of forms" - Matthew B.
Crawford
"The breakdown of
social structures occurs when
creative
individuals are forbidden the excercise of creative
power."
Arnold
Toynbee
"Creativity is a matter of illusion.
We take raw materials and fashion
something that, no matter how
faithful to our experience, is a mechanism,
an invention,
an elaborate shadow play.
The miracle is
we can believe it at all;
a mechanism can stir us into trusting something, on
the most basic level,
not actually there." - David L.
Ulin
To sing and play an
instrument, to dance,
to draw,
to create beautifully crafted hand
made objects from the materials available in the environment, is
as natural a part of being human
as it is to walk, talk, and play.
The atrophy of these functions began
with the advent of the Neolithic
division of labor, and accelerated as the
division of labor intensified with
the global industrial
revolution, which also forged the means to
replace beautifully crafted hand made objects with mass-produced cheap
substitutes.
But all that was in the past. All we need now is a Lab
on a Chip.
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