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Finding My Authentic Voice
As an artist I feel the need to express my authentic voice. As a human being I feel a responsibility to express my authentic voice. If you study art history or keep up with the happenings in the art world you learn that many respected artist expressed their views on politics, human rights and other [...]
Meeting Helga
So often, when something good happens I feel great about it, I want to sing and dance and share my happiness with the world. But then my inner critic shows up to tell me that it was just a fluke. She says things like “you’ll never be able to make a pot that pretty again” [...]
Bringing a Stranger Home
He has a sweet face and seems nice enough but he’s black and powerful looking with the deep eyes of someone who’s seen a lot of hard times in his short life. He’s asking to come home with me, just for a little while, just a night or two until things can get sorted out. [...]
Removing Tolerances
It was recently brought to my attention that one of the things that distracts us from our fullest creative selves is the things we tolerate. I’m a big tolerator. Well, sometimes. I can’t tolerate someone driving too slow in front of me when I’m in a hurry but I’ll tolerate a desk so messy I [...]
Opening My Studio and More
I’ve been selling my pottery on-line and at art festivals in the area for just over one year now. When a show is good I give myself credit for making nice work and the organizers credit for doing a good job and I even credit the patrons for supporting the arts. When a show is [...]
Water, Water,…
Many people on this planet do not have clean water to drink. They don’t have the pleasure of going to the kitchen, filling up a glass of water and drinking it down just because they are thirsty. They really don’t have the luxury of pouring half of that glass of water down the sink. Because [...]
Dodging Bullets
A couple of weeks ago an old friend from college was in town on business so we got together and had dinner. As expected we reminisced about old times and discussed the paths that life had taken us. When I left school I took a drive around the country in an old Ford Pinto and [...]
