A Walk With Him

I have often said that I have never had a real hobby.   That is not exactly true, I did take up golf for a five or six-year period.   I never got very good at it, but I enjoyed it.   But life got in the way as it often does and I let golf go by the wayside. Now, twenty years later and retired, I have found a new hobby; writing, boating, and woodturning.  Okay, three new hobbies.  In this post, I want to focus on woodturning as my inspiration. For those that don’t know what woodturning is, it is taking a piece of wood that doesn’t look like anything, often has splinters, and shows no immediate function.  So the woodturner takes a look at his selected piece of wood and sees something in it that, to date, no one else has seen.  While looking at the wood, feeling it, inspecting it for cracks and flaws, the woodturner starts to see the potential beauty in the piece. After spending some time with the piece spinning at a high rate of speed on the wood lathe, the splintery stick starts t