Carving is something that’s in you, or more accurately its in what you see, you see a spirit in something and you let it out.
Some trees in NE TX have wood spirits I let out
Of course if some dummyrat caught me doing that they would raise Cain that I was destroying the planet, so please... keep it on the QT and don’t make me register my wood gouges
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