The little things…

Last week Flam­ing Hot asked us:

What are the lit­tle ways you enjoy glass and the busi­ness you run?

That was a stumper for me, because there’s not much about glass that I don’t enjoy.? If any­thing, it would be eas­ier to say what I DON’T enjoy about glass and the busi­ness I run.

There are two lit­tle ways, though, that I par­tic­u­larly enjoy my avo­ca­tion.? One is just watch­ing the glass itself melt.? For me, that is mes­mer­iz­ing and utterly relax­ing, even if I tense up imme­di­ately after­ward because I’m try­ing some­thing new or very com­plex. That lit­tle moment of Zen as I ready myself to mold and shape the glass to my vision is what it’s about.

The other is talk­ing to other peo­ple about lam­p­work­ing, par­tic­u­larly those peo­ple who don’t know any­thing about it.? One skill I’ve devel­oped over many, many years of deal­ing with tech­nol­ogy is explain­ing things to peo­ple sim­ply and clearly with­out talk­ing down to them.? I get to use that skill in a non-​technology envi­ron­ment when I talk to peo­ple about the process of melt­ing glass and the plea­sure I get from it; it’s espe­cially sat­is­fy­ing to see the prover­bial light dawn for them as they real­ize just what is involved.