May 2013
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you...”
– RIP, E.L. Konigsburg, author (via harlemink)
“We spend most of our lives convinced we’re the protagonist of the story, but we...”
– Todd VanDerWerff (via yeahiwasintheshit)
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the real or perceived value of silence.
Sometimes I get sick of hearing myself talking. Especially when the person that wants to know what’s on my mind…doesn’t really plan to do anything with the intel. It takes a lot for me to work up the energy to tell people when something is really bothering me. Part of the delay is me evaluating things in my own head. Are my feelings justified? Am I being fair? Have I considered...
lessons from a show...
I’m still cutting my teeth at the show/fair event element of showing my work. I’ve only just developed a comfort level with putting my work in the gallery at the studio where I rent space. Shows are equally inspiring/terrifying. This weekend’s Mother’s Day Austin Flea was insightful. This time I went in prepared, to the extent of having a blue print of my layout created...
February 2013
6 tags
(brown) greenware.
Sometimes I almost hate to glaze some pieces. One of my most favorite colors is brown. I’ve read varying things regarding what that color preference says about me. All I know is, natural colors, earth tones quiet and calm me. Earth says stable. Earth says foundation. Earth means grounded.
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The Glaze Commandments.
There’s nothing like the moment when you look at your pieces fresh from a glaze fire. It is either intense like, or intense loathing. Today was a massive haul, over thirty assorted hand built bowls, carved bowls, chattered bowls and cups. I set them out on the table - and some really moved me…but mostly I felt the overwhelming urge to simplify and better plan my glaze process....
Dream vs. Do
If there’s no daily and quantifiable action nestled in between the life you want to be living and the life you’re currently in…then you’re not doing. You’re dreaming. And dreaming is fine so long as you realize that at some point…
…you’ll need to wake up and face the consequences of all those dreams and all that lack of action.
January 2013
“In my book The Alchemist, the central thesis lies in a phrase that King...”
– Paulo Coelho (via jesstify)
“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
“You owe...”
– Rumi (via heyfranhey)
“You’re single because you’re single. It’s not because you texted too much or too...”
– Why You’re Single by Amanda Crute (via hambitch)
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“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel...”
– Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras (via shaktilover)
hand
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 2012
photo of the week: gourds
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and... →
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People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your…
“That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via troubled)
“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions....”
– Lao Tzu (via theubiquitoussynergy)
