Enduring skills passed on: Irreplaceable

There is something sobering, something dark about the prospect of obsolescence. Technology advances and we are all, one way or another, caught in this flux.

As the nature of work changes radically — when did it not? — how we cope with that evolution seems all the more important. Crafts and those who pass them on can face obsolescence too but, as is the case in every important aspect of life, the adage — it ain’t over until the fat lady sings — rings true.