My Best Discovery

 

I have always loved the sense of discovery I encounter when I cut into a new piece of wood, especially if I am turning a species I have never come across before. On those occasions, I have a wild urge to explore, to find out what grain patterns are waiting to be revealed by the next pass of my gouge. Only my desire to create something more than figured firewood and a pile of shavings has sufficient strength to temper that untamed desire to see what else might be lurking in that piece of wood.

But what should I turn? I used to struggle to come up with ideas for things to create. When I did formulate new ideas, they came slowly and sometimes only partly formed. Rarely did this part of the creative process come easily.

In the past few years, I have experienced a marked difference in my turning; I now have an uninterrupted stream of creative ideas flowing through my mind. I no longer need to struggle to give birth to ideas, rather I must now grapple to stay abreast of the flood.

I do not have to puzzle about what has caused this change. I know. I made some nutritional changes and the lights turned on inside my brain. I had spent 45 years tripping over creative clutter in my head and suddenly I could easily see how to bring those bits and pieces together in new and interesting ways. I could conceive of ways of approaching my turning that I had not dreamed of before.

If you like what you see in my pages of woodturnings, and if you find yourself wishing you could create better turnings than you do, then consider nourishing your brain as part of your basic training program.

There may be many things you can do to improve your diet, but the best thing I ever discovered was a line of whole food, nutritional products. These are what flipped the switch in my brain. What a difference this continues to make; all because I provide my brain and body with a consistent and adequate supply of nutrients!

For more information, contact me at woodturnedart@vcn.com or visit my nutritional products website at http://www.health-helps-you.com.