13: See for Yourself
1. What if every memory of the past was really a premonition of the future? -After watching the movie Arrival
2. My Asheville Potter son calls the wild clay display pictured below “The Petting Zoo.”
3. Right now, he’s teaching student potters at Penland School of Crafts. He’s got them digging wild clay and being part of a team with uniforms comprised of t-shirts that say “the dirt baggers” on them.
4. After I saw the uniforms, I asked him if they were playing sports on teams, he said, “I’ve always loved team sports. Working as a group to accomplish a common goal. The comradery. The feeling of being part of something bigger than yourself. Ceramics and specifically woodfiring is one of the most team oriented craft mediums. Dating back to the pottery village model and continuing into the contemporary studio movement.”
5. Best news headline last week: Trump Slips on Ban Appeal
6. THIS picture of me is called “The Not Washing Your Hair After Swimming at the Pool Hair-do”
7. After having a Berry Good Time picking blueberries and wild raspberries with our grandsons last week, I was reminded of this poem: Plum is yum / and cherry is cheery / But what part of berry is raspy? / Bananas can be split / or cause you to slip / Apples remind me of fall …
8. A lemon could be worthless / Prune could mean cut / A raisin is a grape / But a grapefruit is not / A peach has a pit / A pear has a core / A nectarine has no neck … Read the rest HERE.
9. The comments to THIS recently posted poem are worth the price of admission. It starts: On the plane ride home from Boston to Roanoke / I ponder our brother’s dead body / flying as cargo from Houston to Logan in 2001 / Folding my magazine to a page on green burial / I read that death is a spiritual birth/ and that embalmment means draining the body of blood/ and filling it with formaldehyde preservatives/ Thinking about the fluid collecting in your body / I try to visualize its route and purpose / My tears pool together / There’s a lump in my throat / I worry I have cancer too …
10. “Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space that separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.” – John Berger
11. I’ve been researching museum collections of some of my favorite artists (Klimt, Chagall, Chihully and even Bansky) in NYC because we might be going there in October.
12. I think Marc Chagall is the ee cummings of art. Pablo Picasso said this about him, “When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.”
13. Spooky Action at a Distance: “When two particles interact, they can no longer even be described by their own, independently evolving probabilities, called “pure states.” Instead, they become entangled components of a more complicated probability distribution that describes both particles together…The two could travel light-years apart, and the spin of each would remain correlated with that of the other, a feature Albert Einstein famously described as “spooky action at a distance.” – From New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time
____________Thirteen Thursday
June 21st, 2017 12:33 pm
so so lovely
June 21st, 2017 5:13 pm
I’ve only been reading along here for about a month or so, and I’ve been a bit shy about commenting on your posts, many have been so moving in incredible ways – but I had to stop here, because the 13th point in this piece is perfectly timed and lands as closing but not closed point in this post – and it speaks so well and loops itself through the theme and ideas you’ve shared, but also is so relevant to life – well – energy is life so, that’s a bit of a “doh” thought on my part.
Anyhow, this was wonderful reading and I just had to finally say “hi” and thanks 🙂 And gotta love Einstein.
June 21st, 2017 6:07 pm
Thank you, Pat. You made my day, and part of that is because you also have a blog! I hope you will feel at home here and comment freely.
June 21st, 2017 6:36 pm
thanks for the warm welcome Colleen 🙂
I’m a long time blogger – started about 15 years ago, but then took a break and switched platforms, only recently deciding to come back here to “nest” – so it’s a walk quietly and meet the new community again, but it’s lovely.
I appreciate the diversity of voices and look forward to stopping by here 🙂
and thanks for stopping in at my space 🙂
June 22nd, 2017 9:20 pm
about 1. Geez I hope not!
I’ve been digging for clay, and there is some really fine stuff here up around the La Jolla Indian Rez.
I just participated in the great library read in. The Other Einstein. Though it’s a novel, it was very well researched, and also changed how I see him, incredibly so.
June 22nd, 2017 10:23 pm
Virginia clay is tough for growing. I have often told my husband I could throw pots with the stuff around the house.
Love your TT, as always. And I hope you go to New York.