I like to make a few bows every year. Buddha exercise, therapy, recreation, whatever. Several times a year I get a request to “help” someone make a bow, or to just outright make a bow for them.
This gets uncomfortable as I have no desire to sell bows, or make them for others for the most part. Too much of a Pandora’s box. That’s the surest way to take the joy out of it, for me anyway. So I usually decline.
I do end up helping one or two people make a bow every year. And now I have given one to a fellow that just had to have one. But now there is a catch…
In addition to having them buy the materials for their bow, I ask them to make a $300 donation to the conservation organization of their choice (let me see the receipt please) This serves to weed out the bow junkies and hopefully make the world a better place too.
Just thought I’d pass the idea on to them that care.
