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Woodwork and soccer ?

Yes, well with the longest school holiday ever in South Africa (World cup soccer) parents were looking around for things their youngsters could keep themselves busy with.

So we put out an ad in a nearby school (Trinity House) offering woodworking projects for children and we had a good response. From eight years old they came and did a various projects with different degrees of complexity.

I am always delighted to see how quickly a young boy or girl picks up the rules of the game, the ‘codes and conventions’ if you will.

Well done guys and keep up making sawdust!

2010: 12/19
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Doing, is the only way

There is a familiar pattern in the acquiring of a skill. You move from the known to the unknown. The hands repeat the fumbling, again and again. By the tenth time one little akward movement is elliminated (consciously) and your’e one step closer to that distant goal called SKILL. Don’t be too harsh on yourself (and not too forgiving either). Concentrate. Go for detail.

A year from now you will have forgotten what you were struggling with because you would have moved on to more refined levels of the struggle. Keep going , you’ll get there.

Skill = knowledge, dexterity, experience, patience.