The Next Right Thing by Dan Barden

Author:Dan Barden [Barden, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780679644354
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Once upon a time, I wanted to design furniture, too. So far, I hadn’t been as successful with that as I had been with home design. I’d spent about six thousand hours and twenty thousand dollars trying to design the first prototype of the first chair in my first line of furniture, and I was as close to the beginning as I was to the end. I enjoyed my shop, though, where I liked to pretend that I was an honest workingman with thick hands and a simple brain.

The crib: I pulled out my laptop, went to Google, and looked through a hundred images for cribs. I finally found a Shaker design that was as simple and unadorned as anything I’d ever seen. It was nothing more than a box with slats for the baby to see through. I made it out of quartersawn oak, I made it well, and I tried mightily to avoid putting anything of myself into it. For a few hours, I felt some peace as I assembled that simple, boxy design. The only time I fucked up was when I stripped a bolt near the drop side (I’d fabricated the fixtures myself) and scraped my knuckles on the wood. Other than that, the time I spent making that crib felt better to me than sleep. But then I did sleep.

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