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Handmade Books and Crafting Purpose
I am a novice bookmaker and continue to learn how to make handmade journals. In the years since finding myself categorized as “disabled”, a loss of purpose haunted me. Formerly, working and singing as a musician and a guitarist kept my purposefulness alive. But in the years since 2015, my health…
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Handcrafted Books and Other Wondrous Things
“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore My wife, Dr. Heather Thorp, taught me to make handcrafted books a couple of years ago. I’ve wanted to make handmade books for as long as I can remember. Our sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Davis, taught us how to use contact paper and…
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Book Dust
Dust begins to fall from the book I’m sewing as the thread pulls through the paper. Heather and I have finally created enough paste papers to start making/sewing books again. As I sew together a book for a dear friend, dust from the thread needling through the paste paper makes colorful dust that falls…
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Slow is Beautiful
I was finally able to go with Heather to Rocky Knob this morning. In the past few months I’ve had a few more health challenges keeping me off the trail. Though I couldn’t make the entire trail, it was still powerful to be on the way back to hiking. As always Heather was her kind…
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Who Are You? Who Are You Becoming?
Years ago, when I first started working as a pastor in churches, I asked new people that I met what they did for a living. The question seemed less intrusive than what I considered a more personal question like whether they were married or if they had children. Also, because I was single, I didn’t…