04/30/2025
Hello! It’s been a while since I posted. Thought I’d share some brief thoughts today. Little life analogies that come to me when I make pottery. I call them “Whispers from the Wheel.”
This week I’m working on an order of mugs I need to get done. I was eager to get them trimmed. Impatient, in fact, to the point I decided to trim them before they were dry enough. A rookie mistake and my experience knew better. As the trimming tool got stuck in the too soft clay, the mug spun off the wheel. It hit the wall of the wheel pan and buckled into a wavy mess of tan clay that once held such great potential. I ruined not one but TWO pieces before I decided to put them back on the drying shelf. I knew what would work. WAIT until they were ready. I just didn’t want to. I soon decided it wasn’t worth the cost.
Sometimes isn’t that how life is? We get impatient. We want things to happen now. We want to rush ahead or see the outcome before it is time. And in the rush we make things harder than they have to be, delay the results, or have to start over. Maybe waiting isn’t so bad after all?
