Cue song-- "The End" I've either been a student or a teacher for the past thirty-eight years, so for me, late June signifies "the end." In the past few weeks, I finished up my pottery class, a writing class and said farewell to my class. The cherry on top was cleaning out the classroom I've been … Continue reading “Happy Thoughts” Pottery Collection
Practice, practice, practice! The good news is that with all this practice I'm getting, I don’t really think about Patrick Swayze when I’m doing pottery anymore. Sure, when my pots are flopping, he sort of pats me on the back and says “Bon courage!”—and I think, “Man! He also speaks French?” Flashback..... Kidding aside, I’d like … Continue reading The Importance of Practice (in Pottery and Poetry)
If you google “slab” you’ll find: noun 1. a large, thick, flat piece of stone, concrete, or wood, typically rectangular. "paving slabs" verb 1. remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks. Until April, in my mind, slabs were either a type of fencing used to corral pigs or large hunks of … Continue reading Pottery: Slabs are my Thing
Pottery Update It's been ten weeks since I threw my first pot. (In fact, ten weeks ago I thought throwing pots was about expressing anger.) As I prepped myself for that first class, I told myself that if I couldn't make anything round, I would simply close my eyes and imagine Patrick Swayze's ghost was … Continue reading Pottery and Patrick Swayze