Fabrication

My inability to build a pencil from scratch

“Pencils” (1905), Mikhail Vrubel

I sometimes think about how a person can learn in their lifetime to build a canoe from scratch, but not a Corvette.

I mean, think about what it would take just to make a pencil. The wood needs to be harvested, which requires an axe, and for the axe head I’ll need to take a forging class, or at least find a very sharp ston…