Is This Concrete Concrete?

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In the original essay we were prepping to make a four foot mosaic coffee table built on a pine top set on another set of powder coated legs from Turkey. So in case you hadn't guessed it by now this isn't really about building tables. It's about reconnecting to self and source through the process of making. When we honor that primal desire to turn raw materials into something beautiful when we strive not for perfection but connection, engagement, absorption, elevation. That deeply experiential and a reverent full mind body massage that comes from breathing and thinking and sweating and working something into existence. Not just with your mind but with your hands. I need more of that and if you've

When you watch kids create something, it's like watching an artist who is given complete permission to explore, experiment, and express. There's no sense of censorship or fear of judgment...at least not until we're a bit older.

Working with your hands just plain does something to you. It drops you into a place of pure creativity and consciousness. You become the process, you get lost in it. And that sensation is pure bliss.

But, as we get older, we tend to go to that place less and less. We leave our artist maker side behind. And, in doing so, leave a part of us behind as well.

This week's Good Life Project Riff shares a story and an invitation. To reconnect with your soul through your hands. Jonathan offers up a near-tactile story about how, with no workshop and a modest NYC apartment, he started building tables as a way to not only express his jones to "make," but also reconnect with that primal experience of pure creative consciousness.

And, in case you're interested, here is one of the finished products, a little 150-pound table known as the Concrete Behemoth. If you want to read the full story (and see pictures) on Jonathan's blog, you can at http://www.jonathanfields.com/god-in-grain/

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