Another Near-Death Experience at Kalien from A Life in Four Movements: An Unfinished Symphony Building Hawk’s Nest—my artist studio and the first thing in my entire life I had ever constructed from scratch—generated an impressive collection of wood scraps, sawdust, bent nails, and the kind of construction debris that accumulates around any project undertaken by…

From A Life in Four Movements: An Unfinished Symphony When Physics Meets Ignorance There’s a foolishness that strikes certain middle-aged men who’ve suddenly decided they’re construction workers despite never having owned a drill. It’s the ignorance of someone who thinks good intentions can overcome the laws of physics, that enthusiasm can substitute for experience, and…