My 79-year-old dad has made many beautiful pieces of calligraphy over his life. He is skilled in the tradition, deeply curious about the history of it. Over the years he has created ravens, wolves, ecological charts and graphs and religious symbols, built from wide, black strokes. Last Friday he came over and I asked him to show me how to use my new set of fountain pens and nibs. We tested a few together. He talked about stroke direction, the angle of the pen, the amount of p