Barry Warhol's Pink Birds

So what...I missed a spot.

Wet

Mean

Freaky began her journey at the beginning. 

With a viewing of spiritual writings  of the world. 

She is now embued with knowledge and/… Read full post »

Terrorism is alive and well in Kansas.

Imagine if men were able to bear children.  Then imagine that man being raped and conceiving.  There would not be a moments hesitation among other men if he said that he did not want that child in him.  And… Read full post »

 I was published!  An article about chinese brush painting.

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/pottery-making-illustrated/pmi-back-issues/pottery-making-illustrated-septemberoctober-2009/ Read full post »

A modest proposal for OS: *

"Updated"

When you write a post and it is topical and other things happen after you write it and you think those ideas, pics, or bits should be included for future or currently commenting readers, you rename your post and add "Updated". … Read full post »

When I was in China, I felt safer than I ever felt.  There was a box on every corner in Beijing.  And standing on that box was the police officer for that street.  A beat cop, as it were.

One day, I witnessed a theft.  A chinese pickpocket lifted a tourist's… Read full post »

Deven sent me a gift!

Taking pity on a cell phone haiga artist, she sent me a camera!

This is an ode to a good friend... 

Only seen as dried pods in late season before. 

Naturally fading background. 

Spider web, new briar, and l… Read full post »

My politics seems to have stripped my of my job of 24 years.

I must have been making socks or something with my wheel.

This is enlightening, but now what do I do with my students, 4 wheels, 5 kilns, 2 story pottery studio, popular throwing dvds, and 100… Read full post »

 An OS melange.

This is a list composed of two previous lists prepared when we were all betas and a new list of observations gleaned from the truly open OS.

The first ten are about me then.
The second ten are about fat chicks, of which I am currently one.
The last 5… Read full post »

very serious

 sincere expression of chi

caught in the moment

 the contrasting haiga:

portrait of the artist as a young girl

 start of living fresh

crisp green and white party dress

handed down three times

&n… Read full post »

stele salt etchings

offerings, water music

reliquarium

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How Elizabeth makes a pot:

1. Make shopping list and drive to Bailey to pick up clay (6 hour round trip).

2. Unload and store clay in studio.

3. Wedge clay.

4. Weigh amount of clay needed for pot.

5. Fill a bucket of water for… Read full post »

 Freaky contemplated the darkness of her SINZ!

 ...her sinz! were rainy and gloomy...

an un-named rotational weather event that lasted for days...

and was not even reported by the weather gurus....

 but in the distance, she saw a glimmer of hope...… Read full post »

vision is power

bringing insight to lesser

seers of visions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tequilaanddonuts/1405527876/in/set-72157602193244758/

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chinese cat pictures

enjoying a chinese fish

style, not critters

... 

1.  Inconsistent results in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Poor mental math ability. Poor with money and credit. Cannot do financial planning or budgeting. Checkbooks not balanced. Short term, not long term financial thinking. Fails to see big financial picture. May have fea… Read full post »

 what planet is this?

a gift to teach us to see

the color purple

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cubs love mother wolves

but can't deny their nature

still a vicious bite

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#1

I took a picture of an ant today

she took a picture from the trash
it reminded her of her daughter

I took a picture of an ant

she took a break under the overpass to pee
it reminded her to find some more clean newspaper

I took… Read full post »

We are all traveling in the age continuum.  Where you are on the path is a HUGE component of how you interpret anything. 

It is bi-furcated by gender.

 Male Age Continuum

• boy
• kid
• dude
• man
• old guy
• crazy old guy
• curmudgeon
• geezer
• old-timer
• old fart

If there are… Read full post »

We don't even ask for sweet tea.  If the tea is not sweet, at least a little, it is hot tea, or chinese tea.

And southerners rarely drink hot chinese tea.

It never really gets cold here, you see.  In the winter, 50 degrees is freezing cold.  Still no warrent… Read full post »

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tea worlds colliding

southern potter, traditions

two hands, one for each

how to make southern iced tea:

2 large family sized tea bags

one half gallon of boiling water

pour the water over the bags in the 1/… Read full post »