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To practice any art, no matter how badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. [Kurt Vonnegut]

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil,
which I have forsaken in my great discouragement,
and I will go on with my drawing.
—Vincent Van Gogh

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven
The Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn!

Each flitch, each board, each
plank can have only one ideal use.

The woodworker, applying a
thousand skills, must find that
ideal use and then shape
the wood to realize
its true potential.
George Nakashima

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.

Who Has Seen the Wind? Christina Rossetti