My New Sgian

[Alan H]

Thanks Alan,
I feel really lucky to have snagged it up, it really is gorgeous.

It's like.......**trying for the words**

It's like how I explain the beauty behind throwing heavy weights for the Games. People don't "get" how something so "primitive" could be beautiful.
the way I see it, nearly anything, any activity, any craft with a positive outcome, when carried out by someone who loves what they are doing and is truly expert at it...

...whether dancing or molecular biology or welding or blacksmiting or sewing or racing bicycles....ANYTHING...has a particular kind of beauty to it that goes beyond the thing, or the activity itself. It has something to do with the transcendence of the excellence itself.

That Sgian Dubh, to my eyes, is an example of exactly that transcendence.

[Arlen]

It's like.......**trying for the words**

It's like how I explain the beauty behind throwing heavy weights for the Games. People don't "get" how something so "primitive" could be beautiful.
the way I see it, nearly anything, any activity, any craft with a positive outcome, when carried out by someone who loves what they are doing and is truly expert at it...

...whether dancing or molecular biology or welding or blacksmiting or sewing or racing bicycles....ANYTHING...has a particular kind of beauty to it that goes beyond the thing, or the activity itself. It has something to do with the transcendence of the excellence itself.

That Sgian Dubh, to my eyes, is an example of exactly that transcendence.

I agree with pretty much this whole quote, Alan.
Heavy athletics, while 'primitive' is an art all of it's own.
And it totally makes sense that something like a great Sgian dubh can show all of the same feelings and art.