Those Bygone Workmen

Those Bygone Workmen

“Those bygone workmen did not serve, they worked. They had an absolute honor, which is honor proper. A chair rung had to be well made. That was an understood thing. That was the first thing. It wasn’t that the chair rung had to be well made for the salary or on...
Seeking Out Beautiful Things

Seeking Out Beautiful Things

“Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them, and leisure to look at them.” John Ruskin Beauty has a unique place in human life. One of the most fascinating aspects of beauty is how there are different kinds of it. There is the...
Learning to Write by Hand

Learning to Write by Hand

“The hand is the tool of tools.” Aristotle This post is different. Last autumn I decided I want to retrain my hand. To write. I had three reasons. First, my wife has always had beautiful handwriting, and it is simply so aesthetically pleasing. Second, I have read that...
The Mother of All Arts

The Mother of All Arts

“Whoever it was who said that agriculture is the mother and nurse of all other arts was right, because when agriculture is faring well, all the other arts are strengthened too; but wherever the land is forced into barrenness, all the other arts, whether based on land...

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