“There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.” Matsuo Basho As I push the blade of the knife into the wood it slides along the surface and straight into my thumb – FUPPIT, I shout in my head. I hold my breath,...
“It was an incredible sight, an unbelievable sight, they galloped up with their lances and with pennants flying, up the slope to High Wood and straight into it. …” F.W. Beadle, 2nd Lieutenant It took them many hours to thread their way, tired and breathless, to the...
In a small hut by a river lived a ferryman. He spent his days watching and listening to the river, occasionally carrying a traveller across the water in return for a few small coins and a kind word. Every day he prepared a small meal of rice and beans, which he ate,...
But of all the water’s secrets, he saw today only a single one – one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Hesse...
I started with a very definite idea, something I believed was immutable. I was going to make a chair that could adorn a huge stone library the walls of which are lined with shelf upon shelf of rare and beautiful books – where, nightly, they would be taken down...
This chair has been completed and keeping me company for quite some time, now. I could say quite a bit about what I did and why I did it, but, I have a tendency to say too much, too often. It really does not matter what it is to me; it is, quite simply, a chair...
