…The question has led me back to one of my favorite spots on the Northside of Chicago, Rosehill Cemetery. Since 2015 some of my favorite walks have been through the grounds of this 350 acre garden cemetery…

“I felt silence in my body when I hit a catch on the platters edge while I was turning a piece of wood from my Maryland stock on my Laguna lathe. I watched the pieces of wood fill my immediate space like fireworks. My excitement and momentum shot up in the air along with the scattered pieces and fell like dust on the ground along with my penetrable, newbie confidence.”