Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood Classics_Gift_Guide and Sufi poetry and music

and Sufi poetry and music

and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it

Waterton Lakes National Park

she’s swept away by her toy train conductor

Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood Classics_Gift_Guide and Sufi poetry and musicHumans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from the act of making? What happens to us as individuals when we limit the uses to which we put our hands? These are questions that preoccupy Siri Helle when she inherits a small cabin, without electricity, inlet water, or a loo,