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Woodworking, printmaking, cooking, parenting, and tinkering. Occasional googley eyes, giant cast irons, and beer. NI-CA-NH. #wizardstower2020

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My friend Robbie Boyd gave me a gift. A real one. The kind that costs nothing except the two things the world keeps trying to bankrupt out of us: time and talent.

He carved a woodcut print of my father—whose shadow still beats in my chest like a second heartbeat.

And I can picture him doing it: head down, wood shavings everywhere, that wicked Robbie smile creeping in. Every few minutes he’d pause, look at it, and grin… because he knew. He knew how much I’d love it.

But more than that—
he was carving me an emotional bomb.
Meticulously. Patiently. Happily.
A handmade device designed to detonate in the center of my soul.

And I KNOW he was laughing to himself saying,

“Oh, I’m gonna emotionally destroy him with this one.”

Not out of cruelty. Out of precision. Out of that holy mischief only real friends possess—the kind who know exactly where your soul is soft because they helped build the scar tissue around it.

Robbie and I are those dangerous kinds of friends. We disagree about almost everything on the surface, but once you dig past the topsoil, we’re the same bones.

He once said, “The price of luxury has plummeted while the cost of survival has skyrocketed,”

and that line has lived in my head ever since.

We’re part of a group called The Unoffendables—a band of fools and philosophers held together by blood, banter, and bad decisions. We argue. We laugh. We bleed on each other. We sharpen each other with jokes that would get us excommunicated anywhere else.
We are the food fight of the fruits of the Spirit.

So when he handed me this print—in public, at coffee—he caught me clean. Knife to the soul. A tear formed. My voice cracked. I held it together on the outside while collapsing on the inside. I sucked that tear back in, and he laughed… because he knew exactly where the blade belonged.

This piece is going in my Museum of Life.
First hall. Front and center.
A permanent exhibit titled:
“Got ya.”

Because love—real love—is letting someone in so close they can slip the knife into your soul,
and they laugh while they do it…
and you laugh with them as they do.

Then we made him sing in front of 80 people…..

Wounds become scars and scars become medals

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After celebrating basically all summer and certainly in the 50 days leading up to the big 5-0, I am wrapping up the summer bday celly with a long holiday weekend in Maine by the lake. Was duly celebrated at the office on my bday before heading up north. My daughter blinged my work hard hat for me(!) and I enjoyed drinks and munchies with family at 40Paper in Camden, ME. Lake time for the next couple of days as I step lively into the year of being 50!

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Memorial Day fun in Littleton, home of Pollyanna and a very nice covered bridge.

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Rob and Megan's Christmas card arrived today, just shy of 8 weeks after they posted it! Thanks Royal Mail! 🙄

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Another December Santa Barbara trip in the bag. We figured that this was our 12th annual lunch at the (now newly reopened) Dutch Garden restaurant. I couldn’t be more grateful to @meggieboyd for encouraging me to make this annual trip of connection and refreshment. I didn’t see everyone I wanted to, but came as close as I ever have. Now, homeward bound and ready to wrap this year up and embrace the next.

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Self portrait, Day 14,245. What a time to be alive! #printmaking #manchesterartist #linocut

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Boxing Day walk, while Mum (aka Granny) stayed home for some well-earned peace and quiet

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My lovely postcard from the very talented @robbieboydx - dobations to @thegoodgrieftrust as part of @johnapedde's "One of many postcards" initiative. #oneofmanypostcards #postcards #art #goodgrieftrust

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Came back from a spell working away from home to be greeted by a treasure trove of lovely art, thanks to the contributors to the 1/Many Postcards project. Thank you so much @artylisab , @leyroberts_artist @willis_designs_shop @robbieboydx @wongapress @jomo_33
You made my day. Donations to my local food bank. #oneofmanypostcard

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#oneofmanypostcard. So lucky to have received all these beautiful pieces of art! Many thanks to Robbie @robbieboydx, Sam @same_year, Anna @annahubrob Clare @claireharveyart and Paula @paulahallamart. So happy to have discovered your work. Thanks too to @johnapedder for making this fantastic initiative happen. And for bringing together all this incredible talent. My donations are going to food charities - FareShare and my local food bank - much needed in these times.

#handprinted #artistsoninstagram #sharingthelove #oneofmanypostcards2020 #hope #hopeful #printmakersofinstagram

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A huge thank you to Neil, Becky, Kathryn, Jane, Kenneth, Robbie, Darby, and of course Sam & Renoir. Your continued support gives oxygen to ‘Sunday Sightings’ which is about as welcome as a good smell (see what I did there!). The ‘day of rest’ will never be the same again until everybody comes their senses and realise that all I’m doing is fulfilling a lifelong itch to carve stick men, women and animals out of timber and press their inked up likenesses against sheets of paper and somehow having the brass neck to call it art.
But not yet eh!🙂👍
#sundaysightings #art #woodcut #printmaking #print #printisnotdead #contemporaryart #interiordesign #sheffieldart #reliefprint #blockprint #experimentalprintmaking #get_imprinted

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Thank you to my fellow printmakers for their fantastic 1/Many Postcards. I have made a donation to the Oregon Food Bank in your honour (@johnapedder @robbieboydx @munro_arts @dougmouse @carolyn_vickers_art ). Meanwhile, I am delighted to say that, Releif Nursery Eugene (a social services organization that supports families), Habitat for Humanity, Eugene Makerspace, the Australian Red Cross and various other Australian relief and rescue organizations, mental health support organizations Beyond Blue and the Scottish Association for Mental Health, marine conservation organization BlueVentures, and the friend of a friend whose tools of their trade were stolen, have all benefited from my print sent out as part of the 1/Many Postcards project. And those are just the recipients I know about. Feels good all round......and I get some lovely art in return. Winners all round. Thanks so much for such a great idea, John Pedder! #oneofmanypostcard

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