Two things, the amazing spirit of Ken is so inspiring.
Second, I am so thrilled that people take the time and effort to make A Green and Green home.
Alan BaldwinNovember 14, 2020, 5:20 PM
As a woodworker I had heard the name Green and Green but did not know what it was all about, so thanks. Also thanks for your wonderful story about your adventures with your late brother. It brought me a heartfelt smile remembering my boyhood. Finally, as a forty year fan, your tribute to Van Morrison was wonderful!
After watching this Ode to Excellence, I’m not ready to walk away from my rude and crude wood & metal work, I’ve always been kinda a proof of concept type of smith, -but I have to admit I’ll be paying at least a bit more attention to finish details.
PubliusIINovember 15, 2020, 6:16 PM
Scott Wadsworth is a treasure. And I’m in awe of Ken Jordan, his friend and inspiration, who despite a stroke paralyzing his left arm, was able to do so much and helps the viewer understand the magnificent house in Greene & Greene style which he built by hand.
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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Thank you for this video!
Two things, the amazing spirit of Ken is so inspiring.
Second, I am so thrilled that people take the time and effort to make A Green and Green home.
As a woodworker I had heard the name Green and Green but did not know what it was all about, so thanks. Also thanks for your wonderful story about your adventures with your late brother. It brought me a heartfelt smile remembering my boyhood. Finally, as a forty year fan, your tribute to Van Morrison was wonderful!
….what a friend
After watching this Ode to Excellence, I’m not ready to walk away from my rude and crude wood & metal work, I’ve always been kinda a proof of concept type of smith, -but I have to admit I’ll be paying at least a bit more attention to finish details.
Scott Wadsworth is a treasure. And I’m in awe of Ken Jordan, his friend and inspiration, who despite a stroke paralyzing his left arm, was able to do so much and helps the viewer understand the magnificent house in Greene & Greene style which he built by hand.
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Keep up the good work!