http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/363 Ethos of Making Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:06:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/363/comment-page-1#comment-8957 Deep Craft :: Conspicuous Skies Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:27:46 +0000 http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/363#comment-8957 [...] pay attention to patterns as they emerge. I did not plan to make the first, ceremonial cuts in my deodar cedar logs during the Perseid meteor showers this week, it just worked out that [...] [...] pay attention to patterns as they emerge. I did not plan to make the first, ceremonial cuts in my deodar cedar logs during the Perseid meteor showers this week, it just worked out that [...]

]]> http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/363/comment-page-1#comment-4045 Colin Reedy Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:49:10 +0000 http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/363#comment-4045 YES, "wood of the gods". just that phrase put the image and smell of cedar to my mind. few materials offer such satisfaction to so many of the senses. up here in the Pacific Northwest, cedar is long a sacred wood to the indigenous peoples. great cedar trees were selected, blessed, and prepared for years before ritual felling. these cedar trees became huge dugout canoes to hunt the whale or totem poles carved to tell their tribal histories. cedar clad their long houses and, in the end, held their bodily remains up high in funerary boxes. today, some of the best boats are built from Alaskan yellow cedar. i use it for furniture, and i save even the smallest scrap to bless my fireplace with it's sweet aroma. looking forward to your cedar house. there is no wood more noble. YES, “wood of the gods”. just that phrase put the image and smell of cedar to my mind. few materials offer such satisfaction to so many of the senses. up here in the Pacific Northwest, cedar is long a sacred wood to the indigenous peoples. great cedar trees were selected, blessed, and prepared for years before ritual felling. these cedar trees became huge dugout canoes to hunt the whale or totem poles carved to tell their tribal histories. cedar clad their long houses and, in the end, held their bodily remains up high in funerary boxes. today, some of the best boats are built from Alaskan yellow cedar. i use it for furniture, and i save even the smallest scrap to bless my fireplace with it’s sweet aroma. looking forward to your cedar house. there is no wood more noble.

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