News overload on my shop days, all this talk about health care mandates and the flaring tensions in flash points the world over with out a word to suggest how people can live together in a way that will allow humans to act in concert with one another and in the broader environment that can minimize the strain on the resources we come into conflict over and live healthfully as individuals. Sure I can turn off the radio, but there is a rythm to caucophony that helps move the files when I am making a pure handbuilt and I am getting impatient with pop music. I needed a place to work and focus, and maybe feel some of the buzz of creativity of others determined to make something tangible of their time here. I’ve been granted a modicum of that safe haven with a nights and weekends membership to the artisans asylum near here on the far side of Winter Hill in Somerville. It is just as the name suggests, small studio spaces interspersed among wood and machine shops with classes offered to build knowledge of all manner of making, a place that the only thing you hear is progress and I am really excited about making multiples of my one off frames here.
The individual mandate here at Budd Bike Works is that you get out on your dang bike and be in the world.
