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When physical limitations threaten lifelong craft practice

I can feel my hands getting arthritis and I keep pushing through the pain because I am afraid if I stop I will never start again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The body's betrayal forces a reckoning with the temporal nature of all making.

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