Some things . . .

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1.) Pine cone sorter
2.) Product Illustrator
3.) Metaphor Man
4.) Blacksmith

Movies I've watched more than once:
1.) Blade Runner
2.) LOTR
3.) Always
4.) Dune

Four places I have lived:
1.) Our Universe
2.) Our Solar System
3.) Good ol' Terra
4.) Clark County Wa

Four T.V. Shows that I watched:
1) Planet Earth
2) Battlestar Gallactica
3) StarGate
4) Dog Whisperer

Four Places I have been:
1.)All around BC
2.)Newlyn, England
3.)The top of Mt St Helens
4.)Alaska

Four people who e-mail me:
1.) Kelli, my redheaded firecracker I adore so much
2.) Lauren, who sees it the same as I
3.) Those who want my work
4.)Those who want my time

Four people I wish would email me:
1.) More of those who want my work
2.) Those just saying hiya - howareya
3.) Those with cool ideas
4.)Those who are enthusiastic about how they live


Four of my favorite foods:
1.)Anything shared with those I love
2.) Breaded Pork Chops and Mashed Taters
3.)Chocolate
4.) SEAFOOD!!

Four places I would rather be right now:
1.) Anywhere with those I love
Other than that I'm right where I want to be

Four things I am looking forward to in the next year:
1.) Watching my friends and family live their lives
2.) Seeing the spark when someone loves what I've made for them
3.) Finding value in everything I can
4.) Watching myself get just a touch older

Four people who I think should take this survey:
Anyone who wants to share - always a good thing!

Q's

Rain sez . . . the rulz:
1.Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."

2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions. I get to pick the questions.

3.You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4.You will include this explanation and offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5.When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.

any takers?



1) How did you feel the first time that you worked with metal? Did it always call to you?

The first time I worked with metal was hammering out a small dipping cup from copper plumbing pipe. I had no idea of how to do it properly so it was a mix of mystery, mistakes and revelations. My dad was a 35-year foundry man and you’d think growing up with that, I’d of had an interest. Not so. I took it up for practical reasons then it grew to be a passion. I’ve never been a natural at anything. It’s always “time on the tools” for me to get good at something.
Today, I live for working with my hands. Figuring out how to do something new is a pure pleasure.

2) Do you ever have little moments that are so perfect you can hardly stand it? If so, describe one of these moments.

Doing what I do professionally I have lots of wonder moments when everything just comes together but I’d have to say that the most perfect moments were times with my Siberian Husky Kesska. I’d lie down next to him and bury my face in the fur of his neck and put my arm over his shoulders. I’d smell his fur and feel him breath. He’d begin to make this very contented groan. It was his way of saying he was happy. It was pure joy doing that. My last chance to do that was the night he passed away. After he died I lay next to his body and slept with him through the night. It was in my dreams that I heard his contented groan.

3) If you were an animal, what would you be and why? Plant? Plus one other category of your choice?

I’m VERY canine but if I had to choose I’d say a raptor of some sort. Probably a bald eagle. Although they’re just crows with a nice hat, salmon makes up a large part of their diet and I just live for salmon! The freedom of flight is what attracts me most. As far as a plant goes I’d want to be a tree on the timberline of Mt St Helens. I grew up on that mountain and have a very deep connection to it.

The other category? I’d want to be a comet or a traveling celestial body of some sort. Kind of the ultimate traveler/observer but on a galactic scale.

4) Do you believe in angels?

I don’t. I have no spirituality other than existence. For me, anthropomorphizing elements of the universe robs them of their nature. I’ve never had the deeper questions – “Why are we here?” “What purpose our life?” “Is there a god?” etc.
I’ve never felt that anything or anyone was watching out for me. Don’t mistake my point of view for atheism or being agnostic. I simply don’t care if there is a god or gods. I’m so very contented with having life and being in wonder at the universe I perceive.


5) If you looked at the stars and they told you that you could have just one wish what would you wish for?

I truly do have a wonderful life. The few things I would like to add or expand on are very easily within my reach. I don’t know that I’d have a wish for myself but if I could have anything granted, it would be that we all wake up tomorrow without any need to describe or defend territory.