Have you ever noticed how, when viewed from a distance or over time, many things in life are actually more connected than we may realize in the moment?

We connect a few dots today. Dots between Michelangelo in 1500s Italy, Elbert Hubbard and other Roycrofters in early 1900s East Aurora, NY, a toymaker of the 1930s, artisans skilled in various trades worldwide, and even a contemporary author who lives and writes in Franklin Tennessee.

Add in the sinking of both the Titanic and the Lusitania and you'll have a little sprinkling of disparate thoughts that run through my mind as I walk around my little village on a December day. How could these people and events possibly be related?

Have a listen to Episode 5 of Thoughts on Walks and find out!

If  you're interested in the book I mentioned from Jeff Goins, here's an Amazon link:  Real Artists Don't Starve

Here is a link to a picture of Paul Bartlett's sculpture of Michelangelo which is in the Library of Congress...I was a little off on the location ;)

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