Tag: pottery
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September 29, 2015
I was digging around on a shelf (looking for a book—I’m always looking for a book) and I knocked over a little piece of pottery that (surprise!) was filled with fortunes from fortune cookies. All these fortunes are from a five-year period—a time when my mother was alive and living here in Minnesota. Every Wednesday,…
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January 30, 2014
One of my favorite bits from the book Art and Fear (by David Bayles and Ted Orland) is about a class of pottery students. Half the class is told that they are going to be graded on the quantity of their work (that is, the more pots they make, the better their grade), and half…