I’ve always admired people who put good workmanship into their products -- workers who build bird houses or bicycles or skyscrapers or lesson plans like artists making masterpieces. These people put love, not just labor, into their products, and what they produce is usually a stunning success, a model of flawless workmanship. What’s interesting about this is that I see this kind of flair and proficiency every day in the works of the natural world. Doesn’t nature always use perfect finesse as it makes a morning or a storm or clouds crossing over us or mild winds in March? Somehow, style is always present in Nature’s products, be it two old leaves just now tumbling along our driveway, or the grayest sky you’ve ever seen. It’s always somehow flawless, just the right thing when Nature makes it. The gray sky is the best gray sky it can be, with the perfect elegance of grayness, and the elderly leaves look just right as they roll impeccably along.
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