The cradle

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Le berceau (ca 1872), oil on canvas, 56 x 46 cm, Musée d'Orsay The Cradle

Cottage Interior With Woman At The Cradle Children Examining A Toy

Non-gender specific hands playing cat's cradle against sky

Jim Heimbach is a talented woodworker in Sonoma County, California. His work is as much sculptural as it is fully functional as furniture. A case in point is the cradle he made inspired by Viking longships, which he describes in detail at his Etsy online store. The cradle body is made from air dried local Northern California Claro walnut, steam bent with cherry pegs registering the scarf joints in the overlapping lapstrake boards. The cradle rocks on pivots made from Lignum Vitae, a wood…

Introduction The ancient civilization of Sumer, is one of the earliest civilizations in human history. The Sumerians were a people who lived in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, around 4000-2000 BCE. They achieved impressive technological advancement, including the development of writing, mathematics, and astronomy. Their social structure consisted of a ruling

We’ve all been there, in that dark place where we procrastinate and downright abhor writing. We avoid the imperfect sentences, the sagging storyline in need of an overhaul, or perhaps we avoid the …