Monday, May 28, 2007

Spazz Thoughts

It has been a real effort recently to avoid blogging volumes about current political affairs.
For instance: every day i check the N. Y. Times headlines to see if Gonzalez has resigned yet. It would be the honorable thing to do.
And ....... i could go on, then on, and again ON about the disastrous and chaotic world situation which has escalated into sheer lunacy in the years since the Republican fundamentalist conservatives elected Bush as President.
While watching 60 Minutes last night, i was surprized to hear, that as recently as 2006, there were still Iowa folks who actually believed that terrorists from Iraq attacked our World Trade Center.
Well . . . this is exactly why i stopped writing. I've totally lost faith with American folks who won't do their homework, get the facts and act accordingly.
So enough already yet.


Decided to learn how to create pottery.
Began 6 months ago. Thinking that a new pursuit of creativity would be challenging. Never realizing it would be overwhelming.
Forming some of my thoughts in a clay medium is easy enough.
Glazing -- these creations -- seems impossible.
Have accumulated scads of research papers on glazing. Yet, the glaze information seems not to make the transition from paper into my head. Perhaps, this is the case with the fundamentalist conservatives?
It distressed me greatly last weekend to realize that after 6 months of intensive work -- (10 to 14 hour days, 6 days per week) -- there were only 3 pots that survived the process, and of those, only one which was good-enough to show as representative of my work.
Bummer.
Ah well. Onwards. Always onwards. Wouldn't it be neat if this cup made it from the greenware stage to a finished -- glazed -- piece?
Chae