Today is one of those days when I silently vow never to travel again. Already I’ve experienced one canceled flight, one multi-hour delay, and one missed connection. And I haven’t left Washington.
On days like this, it’s nice to get notes like the one below, which I received from Nico Van Der Hoven, of the custom furniture maker Axiometal:
“I read A Whole New Mind last year and I realized we have a great opportunity to differentiate our business through design and by offering products that tell stories. 
We have a wonderful collection of reclaimed woods available in Ontario that could be up to 100 years old. The wood is reclaimed from old barns, factories, churches, etc.
Recently we used Red Wood that came from a wine vat where it fermented red wines for 80 years. It has now started a new life as an executive desk for the president of a large corporation. The wood is beautiful, but it is the story that makes this desk truly spectacular and the owner who is a wine connoisseur is especially thrilled by its history. Picture attached.”
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