Handmade glass blown from the lungs of men who sucked up air and blew it into a ball of molten glass to form the bubbles that became our window panes. Amazing what some can do with sand and fire.
MAY 20, 2025
Here is a new window for the Loopholer to share with the generations that will see what someone made with care. Long ago, they pulled the coal and melted sand to make this mold full of glass that few would know could last a century or more. Now, I use it for the sight that I suspect will delight those who see the many versions of one image as it’s converted into many identical parts, not pieces separated, but each complete, like us, inside.
Imagine picking out the minerals that would cool to make these colors in the molten glass cooking in an oven filled with coal pulled from mines by twelve-year-olds. There was a time when all worked to refine the metals and the ores that formed our great society before we lost it all. Something happened to wipe out the skills and memories of how we made such wonders, and with so few people on the Earth to do those things. From my point of view, the elders of long ago seem pretty bright compared to all the people I usually see now. What changed? Electricity, education, lack of work ethic, or training? What caused our society to forget how to be so creative and industrious as to create such things as there once were but can not be found today? How did such memory and skills fade away?
From handcrafted cabinetry with no veneer, just the Tiger Oak you see, and the natural colors, the great old grain, the things that make the old things seem so special and strange. This is what I want to save and know the kids will too, once they see that most of what was made has been wasted before it was due to be obsolete or worthless to the people who could see its value now. Quality is easy to see in the stuff that was made in the last century. Let’s preserve and reuse all that we can find and save to stall the loss of all the past we knew when the people had the skills and creativity, too. Nurture this by showing the kids now born that this is still a thing that we appreciate this way.
Please wait until it’s finished, I often have to say, because it can look pretty ugly while the design is still in play. Watch the pieces fall in place as if an organic space finds and fills the voids to be a piece of art for all to see. Perfection is so overrated and often leads to copies made to look as if they are so fine, but made by the dozen for the artistically blind. What are you seeking in a master suite or two? How fancy of a kitchen with a space to eat and do all the things that do not need your bedroom nearby to share, and savor your isolation as you sleep the night away.
There are so many choices in the path that we create on our journey through this life we live, and many celebrate. If you want a chapel, I may have a part or two that could make your special spaces seem more incredible than most do. Join me in the hunt for treasures pulled out of the past as we celebrate the decades of collecting all about, and now to share the best of what we found to grow the crowd of houses that find new life that we all can celebrate. Sustainable, incredible, beautiful, and strong, these houses will last a lifetime.
May your prayers and blessings bring you the chance to finally see a path to getting what you want. Hopefully, you’ll see that this great sale and timing—yes, it’s 2025, and Wii—the people of the world have much to do to thrive. Break free of those decisions to downsize and live some more with the freedom, then travel and “YOUTH” your way to more fun than you ever had when working like a drone.
Savoring the Dayz is something all should do by understanding they can change the world if they do the work it takes to celebrate #Youthing, then it can be true.
Become a great example once you are free from the stress, with time to do the work it takes to get back in shape, and have a great time like I do. Learn to get your balance back, your strength and speed, there is so much. Once you do the work, an hour a day, four days a week… and see the difference you can make in how you age to regain your strength. Why not open up your mind to what could be more well-defined? Aging need not be so bad as I was taught when I was a broken young lad. You need not pay the price and never get better as you age, but you would not dare believe it unless you see how well this stage can be. I hope to help exemplify it so that you can be freed to #Youth your way to loving the day you hit 70, as I soon hope to be.
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