I work, play, experiment and innovate in craft stonemasonry, sharing and celebrating it in north-east Scotland and beyond. Gaining skills and experience in freelance creative stonework, especially in dry stone walling (colloquially dry stane dyking) led to my employment in 2021 as stonemason for CRC.Scot (a small construction team specialising in civil engineering and infrastructure improvement projects connecting people to the environment). The basis for amassing all this learning and work, and for my Fellowship travels in Japan to research my Fellow's Report (Community Stoneworkers: Creative Dry Stone Construction for All), is the conviction that the wellbeing of people and the planet benefits greatly by co-operatively building and learning together outdoors, reviving and developing skills which work in harmony with people and places by revealing our innate creative nature. Using skill-sharing workshops, collaborations with other environmental workers, social practitioners and landowners or users, we hope to mobilise to help craft a better future for all. Together, if we remain open with 'beginner's mind', we can discover our 'ikigai' or reason for being.