Grow it up, Cut it down

I know it is a myth to think that one can be totally self-supporting and solve all the worlds problems by rejecting the mass produced world and all. We have to engage, I know. But it is also a myth that you need to buy a new piece of furniture every time the current cut and shape goes as little out of fashion. And this is just one project. One project that could become many. Resists with time.

Grow a tree. Plant one or a bunch today. Then cut it down and do something with it.

And since that'll take awhile. Get some other wood right now. Like big raw scraps of a cut down trunk. And like make it into a table or a bookcase. Anything. Just start with the rawest of the raw and make something. Spend a lot of time on it too. Make it really well in fact. And if there is something wrong with it, fix it. Take it apart and make it again. Give the object some love and some history. I'm all for material fetishism. Give it some power of its own.

And the trees you grow, mark em off for a later date when they're to be made into something too. I just love the idea of your things having a special place, a story and a life. So when they have something wrong you want to get in there and make it better, not throw it out.

And yeah, maybe it gets thrown out in the end too. But at least work on it.

But this is me.