Skill or Tools?

I just finished some cruising on the web looking at what metal-smiths were doing from all over the USA and the world. What I saw was a wonderful selection and variety of items being skillfully produced. It was a portfolio full of “let my imagination run wild” opportunities for creative expression. There is so much variety in metal crafting that with me starting as a retirement age practitioner, I know I can never in my...

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The Ant’s Retirement

I have decided that retirement is a line to cross and is not a hole in which to hide. I think the term today is active retirement rather than suspended animation. It is just a point or event in time, like a birthdate. I am born into a new way of thinking and living. As with a new baby, I fill my lungs with a new source of Oxygen and learn to breathe by first...

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ModelBoatBlog

I retired one of my hobby blogs called ModelBoatBlog. That project has been in suspended animation and I have added nothing new to the blog for some time.  It is victim to the “too many irons in the fire” syndrome to which I sometimes succumb. The old URL for those who have it marked will link back to here at Ramblin’ Dan.

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