For many thousands of years, children have crafted walking sticks.
They learned how to use razor sharp knives and to control carving and slicing.
It’s an old rite of passage and a gateway to discovery.
No apps are needed nor screens required.
It’s something deep and innate: hand, knife, and wood.
It is animate and primal, almost instinctual.
Here we sit whittling away on a long slow summer afternoon in Andaluciá.
Photo courtesy of the author.
