Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood Classics_Gift_Guide she’s swept away by her

she’s swept away by her toy train conductor

and Sufi poetry and music

a misfit crew

Waterton Lakes National Park

But the Zillers’ American dream is about to be rudely interrupted

Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood Classics_Gift_Guide she’s swept away by herHumans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from the act of making? What happens to us as individuals when we limit the uses to which we put our hands? These are questions that preoccupy Siri Helle when she inherits a small cabin, without electricity, inlet water, or a loo,