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Even the word "woodworking" was hardly used before that time, and there were only cabinet makers or designers when we first started out. I think at that time the term was considered somewhat humiliating.

Dorothy Grotz, one of my oldest friends, thought that I could never earn a living in any way, as sooner or later I would just drift off into the realms of unreality. Actually, this is one of the most hard-boiled businesses there is, and I probably have more of a relationship with rough and tough loggers, who can hardly speak English, than with my peers. Over the years, however, things have improved, and we are finally making a living.

People are even beginning to listen.

The fundamental concept which differs is perhaps not design nor psychological art nor transforming our environment with super colossal architecture, but to build small things with truth, integrity, and beauty. Beauty, I feel, is the most important, as I am sure that you and Evelyn also think that way. It is not a question of the shock appeal of psychological art and architecture, but one of the utmost sincerity and integrity. It is something that E.F. Schumacher has written of in his book "Small is Beautiful," which we have been practising for the last forty years, and he and others like Lindisfarne have just gotten around to talking about.

Of course, what we have been surmising at present is something much bigger than this. I, too, have thought of this, but felt that it was just a private thing with myself and a few others.

What we are doing is a personal expression, and what we could realistically work out in our own environment, actually as a protest against what the modern world feels is expedient and has to go through with. But it can be larger, and whether I am the one to say anything about it or not might be questionable, but I am willing to give it a try, especially since others of a like consciousness feel sympathetic to the idea.