I Love Sharing Cool Stuff Made By People

Yesterday, I wrote a diary entry on Dreamwidth cataloguing the computers I own after my 2015 MacBook Pro died due to a swollen battery I couldn't afford to repair. While this was meant to be a simple inventory, writing it made me pause and realize that I really have so much, and that I've been under-utilizing both my time and what I own. And I think most of us underestimate what we can do, starting right now, with the things we already have. We tell ourselves that we need the better tool, the right season when we have more time, the gear acquisition syndrome scratch that never gets fully itched. Meanwhile, everything needed for a creative, contemplative, useful life could already be sitting in your house. I also shared a new little note on my homepage asking people to share things with me that they made (with their human hands) that I could write about. I've already gotten a number of responses, and I think there's a nice unintentional throughline. Make Things! To start, Maya…