HAPPY NEW YEAR!
to you all, who visit here from time to time.
I wonder often who you are, and now I new-year-challenge the silent ones of you to comment with a few words about yourself and whether you have a blog or a web site, for contact and mutual inspiration, you know, or maybe just to satisfy my curiosity.
It's 12AM here now!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Monday, December 07, 2009
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sunday, November 08, 2009
THE MARKS OF DUSK
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
RIO
Friday, October 09, 2009
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
DIVINE INTERVENTION
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
THE FINAL F
Now I have a design that I'm satisfied with but to print it is another story. I have looked into screen-printing but I don't know if I have the facilities to do it here myself and printing in a shop is a major investment. This means: wait and see!
Yesterday I played bocce-ball for hours at the Leo party in the park. When I have fun with the boys I don't stop till I'm completely exhausted and today I've been laying low all day. I baked bread in the morning and tried out the bike after its repair. The back axle broke day before yesterday when I was downtown, so, the bike finally got the overhaul it has needed for a while.
All afternoon I was reading. I have just found a new author that I like: William Maxwell, and I got the first volume of his collected works, 997 pages, from the library.
Yesterday I played bocce-ball for hours at the Leo party in the park. When I have fun with the boys I don't stop till I'm completely exhausted and today I've been laying low all day. I baked bread in the morning and tried out the bike after its repair. The back axle broke day before yesterday when I was downtown, so, the bike finally got the overhaul it has needed for a while.
All afternoon I was reading. I have just found a new author that I like: William Maxwell, and I got the first volume of his collected works, 997 pages, from the library.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
QUOTE
There is no conflict between mysticism and science, but there is a conflict between the science of 2000BC and the science of 2000AD and that’s the mess in our religions; we’ve got stuck with an image of the universe that is about as simple and childish as you can imagine…it’s of no use to us.
We have to have poets, we have to have seers, who will render to us the experience of the transcendence through the world in which we are living.
(Joseph Campbell)
We have to have poets, we have to have seers, who will render to us the experience of the transcendence through the world in which we are living.
(Joseph Campbell)
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Saturday, August 08, 2009
F
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
RIP JOHN BROWN
John Brown, the teacher in whose studio I have been working, first in January and now the last five weeks, died of a heart attack last night.
Yesterday he was emptying the kiln with us all helping to carry the pieces to the shelves - today he is gone. It is hard to believe.
John's studio is a vital part of the lives of many people and he was keeping everything smoothly moving.
He will be missed and remembered.
Yesterday he was emptying the kiln with us all helping to carry the pieces to the shelves - today he is gone. It is hard to believe.
John's studio is a vital part of the lives of many people and he was keeping everything smoothly moving.
He will be missed and remembered.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
THE FORM OF THE FORMLESS
Another quote from The Book of the Way and Virtue:
It is not clear above;
it is not dark below;
unceasing, unnamable,
it rturns again to nothing.
It is the form of the formless,
the image of nothing.
It is said to be disturbing and distracting.
Meeting it you will not see its head;
following it you will not see its rear.
It is not clear above;
it is not dark below;
unceasing, unnamable,
it rturns again to nothing.
It is the form of the formless,
the image of nothing.
It is said to be disturbing and distracting.
Meeting it you will not see its head;
following it you will not see its rear.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
LAST WEEK
On the fourth of July I took a hike with Jun and Yukari and Jun's old school-friend who didn't look his age.
We got lost and the hike was so long that it completely tired me out so I couldn't do anything much the rest of the day.
On the fifh I went to Wasemo's 18 years birthday. I have known him since he was in his mother's belly. Now he is a big guy.
Written in runes this is a poem by Virginia Hamilton Adair called 'God to the Serpent'. God praises the snake as his masterpiece and derides the humans for their vanity thinking that they are created in God's image.
I love the last line to the snake: "I'm glad you stayed in Eden when they left."
These two are from the first batch this time at Clay Creation. It came out of the kiln yesterday and was mostly disappointing with exception of these.
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