Living in the United States
I forget the luxury
Of constant access to whatever resource I might want or need
Travelling down the Baja peninsula
Ingenuity to fill these wants and needs becomes a theme
A job as simple as painting a house for a good friend of Finding the Good
Becomes something like a puzzle
Requiring all sorts of random objects
To occupy the holes
That Home Depot will not be filling
It’s a good thing Tom is here
With his help
Part of a lobster trap becomes a paint bucket screen
A sponge, zip tie, and putty knife turn into a paintbrush
An old leaf spring member doubles as a paint scraper
And a mangled piece of cardboard is apparently the only thing we need for masking
Learning to adapt things to fit one’s needs is a skill
And Baja is a perfect practice ground
All one has to do
Is open the mind to altering the use of available objects to fit the present task
By: Jon Manrow