I find great peace in the darkness that welding provides. There is a necessity for great focus and awareness at every moment. 

We must understand our interconnectedness and responsibility to the earth - we are together in a vast web with other innumerable and necessary species. I pray we teach ourselves and our children to be both knowledgeable and vigilant stewards of our natural home.

In an age of extinction, I believe this is a poignant, crucial time. A time to reflect on the basic philosophical questions surrounding life and death, as well as beauty and harmony, not only of our endangered speces, but also of our won fragile selves.