A Note on the Previous Post

Perhaps writerly excess came at the expense of clarity in the previous post, so to put it plainly: I love carpentry, and I'd be perfectly content to have it become my career — at the very least until I've learned enough to be reasonably proficient at it. My worry — which isn't as deep as its echo may have seemed in that bit of writing posted just before I rushed to get ready for work — is that I'll have to content myself with its being some sort of substitution for the writing.

Proper perspective, I've found, can transform what appear to be hardships into opportunities, even into a source of glory. The question that I find myself asking, of late, is whether there's a danger of making perspective a passive form of misdirected action.