Everyone has a breaking point. Cody’s came when confronted with “operator error” while he worked on a computer project. A pillow took the brunt of his frustration. Then he had a real mess on his hands.

When is a patio not just a patio? When you have to destroy it in order to make a “commitment” to your house. Rachel talks about this relationship to creating something new for the home.

I wanted to know what people last destroyed by way of understanding their creative process. Tom sat down with me at St. Mark’s Coffeehouse in Denver and talked about a time he destroyed a family heirloom, and what this meant in a larger context.