Passion…

by Fitz | Nov 5, 2019 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog

Does this video really have anything to do with English? It was posted by a friend–who is easily the most talented musician I know–so I watched, more out of a shop teacher’s curiosity of “how things are made.” What strikes me most is not the skill of the violin maker, known as a “luthier,” but the un-noted history that brought him to the point in this video where he can construct a violin with a set of hand tools.  It had to be some equation of life measured in time, passion, and curiosity–not some innate and crazy skill. Nothing he does here–from a woodworker’s perspective–is all that special, but the end result is.

Link to Video: I can’t seem it embed it in my site

You are all at a point in your life where everything matters: if you work out and get strong, you will probably stay strong for the better portion of your lives. If you study hard and do your work in and out of school, you will have a lot of options in the future. If you practice kindness, generosity and acceptance, you will never be without a friend or without respect. 

If you do not dream, you are already dead.  If you waste time today to rest for tomorrow then the violin of your life will never get built.

Dream of a violin and build it…now!

There is no tomorrow.