John.

As a boy, John found an old guitar, strung-out and warped, the kind almost anyone would toss. Instead he spent a winter straightening it out little by little, patiently, until one day it played. That's where he learned something he's never forgotten: that almost nothing is truly dead. When someone brings him a battered instrument and gives it up for lost, John turns it over and comes out with his favorite line: "it's not dead, it's just out of tune with life, that's all." And he sets about fixing it.

John has a tremendous eye. He picks up a wooden board, looks at it against the light for a good while and sees the guitar hidden inside: where to cut, where the knot is that would spoil it. To him it's like a game of looking really well, of noticing what others pass over. This t-shirt carries his face up close: the white head, the yellow hooked beak and the leather jacket of a tough guy with a good heart. A bald eagle of the kind that fixes things, for curious little ones who love finding out how everything works.