i woke up with a thought banging around my head like a stone in a tin can.

how do parents set their kids on their creative journeys?

as a 7-year old, I remember watching my brother who was 10 pick up make his first wood carving at a class. by 13 he had a table saw and a subscription to a woodworking magazine. his shop grew to a include a router for the rounded table corners, a lathe for making wooden bowls.

my parents didn't seem to push him in that direction at all. it just took the first wood carving class.