She agreed to listen to just seven seconds of whining: I began, “I don’t know how to glaze these pots.” We had just unloaded our kiln. 52 pots stared at me, waiting to be transformed into something beautiful. I had no idea what to do. So, we went over the old pots in the kitchen, […]
OK, so I’m writing. I like to write. I revisited some of my old blog posts (from old websites), and that was encouraging. It wasn’t terrible. So, here I go… I’m writing again. ∆
Once upon a time, I made pots. They looked like this… After many months of working out the details – tweaking shapes, finessing brush strokes, formulating glazes – I realized they just weren’t working. I was convinced they were going to be great, but they weren’t. The shapes were either awkward or uninspiring. The decoration […]
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