51 lines
2.3 KiB
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51 lines
2.3 KiB
HTML
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{% extends "base.html" %}
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{% block content %}
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<h2>Creating Things</h2>
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<p>
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Creating things is something that my family has always held as something very important.
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We tend to operate more on the building fixing side of things but there is something sacred in any act of creation.
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I wrote about this feeling in <a href="/blog/mm">Midnight Musings</a> when I was unable to sleep.
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</p>
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<p>
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I dabble.
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I know that I won't make a website as beautiful as one that a design studio could.
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I can't build furniture as well as a carpenter.
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I don't write as beautifully as an author.
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But I try to do all these things.
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</p>
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<p>
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The quality of the output is sort of the point.
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I certainly want to make anything as well as I possibly good.
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If I am going to try and do it I want to try and do it well.
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However if it was the only point then I would go to professionals for these sorts of things.
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The point is the act of creating itself.
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The objects wind up with a story.
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And that magical thing that is a human touch.
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</p>
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<p>
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With mechanised creation it is all to easy to make things that are essentially perfect.
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No rough edges but also no character.
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They fade into the background of life.
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I use them and they work perfectly fine but I don't think about them the same way that I do my wallet say.
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Which is from <a href="https://www.osleather.com">Open Sea Leather</a>.
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Made by one person, I got to pick out the colours of the leather and the thread.
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Every time I handle it I feel a small connection to the maker on the other end and and silently thank them for their work.
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</p>
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<p>
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I feel that connection to my past self when I use things that I have made.
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The younger Awstin with his excitement, and by definition knowing less than I know now.
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I learned from that act of creation and could probably do much better the second time or more.
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These things encompass so much more then what they are.
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</p>
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<p>
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The old worn chestnut of journey over destination.
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Cliche but does fit.
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There is little value in just being somewhere or having something.
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I guess what I am trying to say is that life, the depth of life for me is lived in stories.
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What was and what could be.
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Handmaking something gives it a story and thus a little spark of life.
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</p>
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{% endblock %}
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