Art created
by human
hearts and minds.

If you're unemployed then you can go to the mountains on a Wednesday. That's what I did, hoping to find some work. At the top of the mountain I could see clearly, and, with my love, we met a friend.

On the way down I met a goat. I asked the goat if he knew where I could find a job.

"Job is a four letter word," said the goat. "Anyone can get a job. What you need is work; life's work. What you need is purpose."

Considering the goat's advice, I began to make my way back down the mountain.

"Remember," said the goat, "it takes work to find your purpose."

In January 1994, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake violently shook the San Fernando valley near Los Angeles and awakened people before dawn. Legend has it that people called emergency services not just for the outage, but to ask about a "strange, silvery cloud" in the sky — the Milky Way, unfamiliar to those living under decades of suburban light pollution.

Growing up in rural Eastern Kentucky, I've marveled at the night sky for as long as I can remember. More than 100 years before Northridge, another quieter example of technology shaping human experience: the QWERTY keyboard, and the strange, accidental ways the tools we build go on to shape us in return.

The hammer shapes the hand.