@Lucie Y - Congratulations on the success of your workshop! I hope you keep teaching; you clearly have so much to offer! I like those s's on Cislak's insta - it's a really clean italic with some of those "Johnston" hairlines. I'm sure you'll present the piece beautifully, with or without a border.
@Erica McPhee - My best wishes for your son's quick and thorough recovery! My oldest son had three of his fingers smashed in a door (on the hinge side!) when he was around 4. He needed pretty extensive surgery and months of rehab, but he went on to a long and successful stint as a classical pianist and cellist in the regional youth symphony, and is now in college, playing guitar too. I hope for as successful an outcome for yours! At any rate - don't let the doctors tell you "never again!. The celebrated violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, once cut off her pinky finger chopping onions! It was surgically reattached, and while it healed, she re-fingered the compositions so that she could persist in her concert career.
Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts about my "Castle"!
Here's "Dagger" for me, with another synonym replacement: Knife for Dagger - so that I could get a K for my alphabet.
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@Matthew H. - by way of encouragement, I'd like to point out that I had a wee bit of blobbing at the bottom of the "e" in Knife, and it kind of spoils the piece, but also it doesn't really. And I think that everyone was so nice about my failed "Rise" - and you yourself said you liked it, even though I didn't. So in that context "perfect" doesn't really matter.
I always tell my students: If you're not failing from time to time, you're not trying hard enough.
