Mystic Monday: Thomas Keating [1923-2018]

“Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.”

I build guitars. Sometimes I repair them, too. One of my favorite chores is to find some discarded instrument, abused and neglected, and restore it to playability.

Often that requires me to strip off the old finish, expose the wood, discard the electronics, straighten or replace the neck, and even remove the frets from the fingerboard. While not much is …