love after love

good morning.

here are some more new things in my shop.

i've been thinking about what i want to work on in 2013

and this is a bit of a preview.

i also anticipate some wood and perhaps some metal.

i'm excited for these prospects.

...

and here is a poem i heard this morning on on being called "love after love":

The time will come,

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other's 

welcome

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was 

your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

-derek walcott