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I'm Zach Beauvais. I help organisations tell their stories.

At work, I help leaders at Cornell University understand their purposes, plan for their messages, and help varied teams turn ideas into content for our students, faculty, collaborators, and our huge community.

I also take photos, make coffee pretty well, and turn green wood into spoons, bowls and cups.

Lately, I've been writing about the pandemic

Life

Pandemic Notes: and our echoed voices come back

A friend posted a link to an article that said something about the disease mess were in right now. This friend has a different friendship

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30 April, 2020

Looking up the trunk of a busy, monochrome plane tree

Life

Pandemic Notes: I’m done breaking things down, I need to build them up again.

I’ve been exhorting people to create. To reach out, and make something, in this pandemic – this soul-sucking time that suffocates spirit by cutting off

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14 April, 2020

Life

Pandemic Notes: Quarantine introspection. It’ll kill you slowly, if you let it.

Thoughts follow thoughts, and patterns put a spin on them so they tend to go off in familiar directions. Right now, where I’m at, I’m

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4 April, 2020

Green Woodworking

I make things from greenwood

I start every one of my projects with a tree. If I’m lucky, I get to fell it, but sometimes, I collect up a fresh log. I split green logs with a froe, axe, and wedges.

Once the shape is roughed out, I move on to refining with straight blades and hook knives (which let me hollow out bowls).

I don’t use sandpaper or other abrasives, so everything is tool-finished.