Contemplation in action
17 December, 2020 02:00
Belfast writer and broadcaster Jim Deeds has been making a series of small holding and standing crosses from reclaimed wood. Picture by Mal McCann
JIM Deeds was sitting in his west Belfast back garden two summers ago when he felt one of those taps on the shoulders, those jolts of inspiration, that occasionally come into our lives and won't go away, writes William Scholes.
Rather out of nowhere, he decided he was going to make a wooden cross for his mother.
He describes that first effort as rudimentary. Its successors are anything but, and in the days and months since he estimates that he has made a couple of hundred in a garage workshop that has become rather more 'workshop' than 'garage'.