As a non-exuberant, non-religious, non-sociable sort of person, I don’t really do holidays. As always, not doing anything is agreeably low impact. I cringe at the thought of chopping down a perfectly good tree just to prop it up in my house for a month, and I don’t need the symbolism of a fake [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pottery’
27 Sep
The most likely scenario
Activists have to be, at least on some level, optimists. You just can’t throw yourself into something thinking, “Well, this is a waste of energy.” I believe, because I have to believe, that we are capable of doing something about this giant iceberg we’re about to hit. Even if we can’t turn this boat around, [...]
27 Apr
The art of the green compromise
As a hobby, pottery sounds pretty old school and traditional. Like organic agriculture, hand-weaving, and compost heaps, it’s been around for centuries. What could be more low impact and earthy than a craft centered around mud? A whole lot. Here’s the wheel I use: it’s a Brent electric wheel, and it has horsepower. Horsepower. Like the other [...]
15 Mar
100 Posts and a Special Giveaway
UPDATE: Random.org drew #18, and after I counted everything up, that turned out to be Small Footprints. Congrats! The bowl is on its way. There are now over 100 posts in this blog. I’m amazed, too. Oh, not all of them are good. Some of the early ones, the ones when I had started this [...]
19 May
Replacing Consumerism
Recently, I did something that I’d wanted to do for a long time but always been too cheap/busy/timid/tired to: I signed up for a pottery wheel class. Monday night was my first class. I sat at the wheel up to my elbows in slip, clay flowing limpidly under my braced hands. You’d think that centering clay would [...]
