Working With My Hands

I find value in a consistent personal practice of physical making. It provides balance with my laptop job by exercising different parts of my brain and body. I aspire to spend a few hours (or days) each week covered in flour or sawdust. The flour comes from a ritual of fresh baked sourdough (bread, pretzels, waffles, and more). The sawdust comes from a practice of hand furniture building and ever-escalating home projects.

The skills and tools are different, but the process — as with design — is an exercise in problem solving.

Why did this baguette come out so flat? How might I tweak the process for a better result? Did those tweaks work?
Who decided it was a good idea to have no ground slope away from the house? How might I create some without driving myself insane or breaking the bank?

It's an endless pursuit of skill & knowledge to do the next thing a little better.