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Delp describes her job at a lu mber industry insurer as “sweet serendipity”
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Height of the largest piece she’s created (a bookcase)
ALONG THE GRAIN
Insurance analyst Sally Delp is following a family tradition as a third-generation woodworker SALLY DELP’S father and grandfather were both woodworkers. She grew up watching her father craft various projects out of wood, and it eventually became a form of bonding between them. “When I did my first woodworking project – a simple fireplace mantel – we worked on it together,” Delp says. “He passed away just five months after we finished that project, but I still feel him over my shoulder, giving encouragement and helping me solve problems on new projects.” Delp, who works as an IT governance analyst at Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company, says woodworking provides an outlet from her usual “buttonpressing” at the office. “Sanding, staining and sealing the wood are all meditative processes that give my mind freedom and release,” she says. “But the biggest benefit is that every aspect of the process brings me a feeling of closeness with my dad, whom I miss very much. Most of my projects are made from wood that I inherited from his stash, which even includes wood that he inherited from my grandpa in 1974.”
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