Or you could take a class

We are in the car when my son asks me if I can build a house. I say no. “I’m not a builder man. I don’t know how to do that.”

He silently thinks for awhile, turning things over in his mind. “But Dad! You are a worker-man, and you could take a class and learn how to build things.”

I’ve been in school all my life, but something moved me by his suggestion that I could take a class to learn in an area I felt deficient in.

“Yes, son — I guess I could!”

About a week later, we’re driving around town when I see an A-frame sign on the side of the street: “Live Woodworking Classes.”