The Art Of Engraving Wood

It’s impossible to say from where the idea for the cubes arose. One day I was preparing a block of wood that I wanted to turn into a bowl, and it just didn’t want to be made round. It was a block determined to remain a block. This caused a halt in production as I thought this over for a few days, and then inspiration came to me as I looked at my business partner’s desk.

On her desk Linda has three not-all-that-pretty boxes. One contains the ashes of her dog Sandy, another is the box containing her late cat Tigger, and the third box holds the ashen remains of my dog Shiva. Linda has decided that she does not want to scatter Sandy’s ashes outdoors because then her dog would be “outside alone at night and in the cold and in the rain”. That’s just how she is, and as her best friend I happily go along with it. Linda did, however, like the idea of a special box that captured the spirit of the outdoors over which the young and vital Sandy once reigned supreme.

I used to think it a little creepy to have the ashes of pets just sitting around, but now I have moved Shiva into her own special box where she will remain until I have the time or inclination to deliver her ashes to Snow Lake in the Sierra where some of the happiest moments of my life with her were spent.

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