Professor PawPaw

My PawPaw is the most brilliant person I've ever known. He's also the least formally-educated. Formal education is my life; I have a graduate degree and work as a college professor. However, the lessons I learned from PawPaw are what guide my life. The most important: if you don't know how to do something, figure it out. Other lessons I live by: if it's broken, fix it; if you need something, build it.
PawPaw was a carpenter by trade and by hobby. I, too, have the itch to build and create. My first project was building the table in this photo. I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but as you can see, I figured it out. Just like my PawPaw would have.
He died two days ago. His blood flows through my veins though it no longer flows through his.