what a semester

Happy holidays. So happy that there is time to catch up on sleep and reading for a little while.

I'm in Chicago with my brother and his family for Christmas, the drive out was great, f-l-a-t, plenty of sky, sun and snow on the ground.

"the hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. Its so easy to make it complex."

Yvon Chouinard

image from the George Nakashima workshop near New Hope Pa.