Circling Crows

In my last post , I focused on finalizing the basic frame of the instrument:  two blocks at each end of an axle.  With that complete, and ha...

My last post about the rotola focused on the production of the cross-wise bent strips of spruce that would ultimately comprise the cylindri...

It feels like, for most people, birthdays with zeros in them have greater significance than others and, for myself, even-numbered "zero...

It was one of those days where you realize that "sky" is just another human construct, that the sky starts wherever the ground end...

In my last post about the rotola -- more than seven months ago now -- I made optimistic descriptions of what would come next and how I'd...

Last Friday, April 30th, I hung up with my last patient of the day and ran down the stairs from my home office to hug my daughter for the fi...

Before I pick up where I left off with this instrument, I need to revisit what to call it:  in going through some old notes, I saw that my i...