Jake

“Over his years as a woodworker, Liam has learned that even the finest-built, most expensive houses have their flaws and deficiencies, and this one is no different. This is the carpenter’s painful truth: nothing is true. By true he means level, plumb, perfect. Every room you’ve ever entered has been off by at least a sixteenth of an inch—more probably an eighth. Guaranteed. We think we live in boxes until we look closer and find we’re in fact living in irregular shapes, in big, misshapen accidents. Which makes carpenters the high priests of living with mistakes. And while sloppiness is the most grievous insult you could throw at another carpenter, true perfection is maddeningly unattainable, which is why it’s never spoken of. Because even after you cut a piece of wood and lay it straight, it lives on after you’re finished, soaking up moisture, twisting, bowing, and warping into unintended forms. Our lives are no different.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood