Appreciating masters of their craft
I tell my journalism students to mine their lives for story ideas because it is impossible to live a life free from something worth writing. Sometimes we look too close and miss the obvious. That happened for me while looking for a specific steelhead photo on my phone.
As I was scrolling, I saw the progress made on the house my wife and I are building then laughed at just how silly that statement is. “We’re building.” No we aren’t. We are paying people to build it for us. We might be more involved with design, day-to-day decision-making and have helped with parts of the process, but we aren’t building it.
The last 12 months have been incredibly educational in the realm of the trades. My grandpa was a welder after World War II, my other grandpa made oak furniture and one grandma worked for Beech Aircraft building airplanes during the war. So I was raised to appreciate and value trades workers every bit as much as people who wear ties to work.
