We're here to celebrate the makers of things. Things with moving parts, greasy parts, made from wood or wool and other things that grow. Things with diodes, capacitors, wires wound tight around iron cores. Things that do stuff, hold stuff, keep us lit and warm.
We'll be writing about knitters, fitters, carpenters, mechanics, jackleg engineers. People with too many tools and never enough time, with things to get done and the itch to do it. People who make things out of love, need, compulsion, or just because they can. Kids who build robots because it is fun.
This was our past. We were self sufficient, individually, as communities, as a nation. We made it up, we made it do, we did without. Ordering from the Sears&Roebuck catalog was a big deal. We were green because we had to be.
And now, we order from Amazon. Tools from China, digital downloads from cyberspace. Fruit from Chile, fish from Thailand. And that is good, too. But it does not have to be the whole of our future.
We can eat locally. We can buy locally. We can make our things ourselves.
If you have a maker to write about, whether it's your friend, your mother, your neighbor or yourself, get in touch and let's tell their story.
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