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What the heck?
Hi, I am back. Some time ago an evil cyber nerd ate my blog. It appears that, for now, the "Potter's Journal" I have kept for the past few years is gone. Oh well. Lessons in non-attachment.As the blog...
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Pulling a handle on a mug.
I got an email from a pottery student asking me about how I make mug handles. What follows is some instruction with images I took of myself. Unfortunetly shooting my own demo means I can only have one...
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Recent work
During the past week I have been getting the wheel turning again after a long break. Here are some of the things I have been throwing. Click on the thumbnails to see bigger images.
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Moving logs
We recently purchased two log cabins from a couple we know. They had disassembled the cabins and stored them under tarps here in town. The smaller of the two (16'x28') will be a new painting studio for...
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Lee's Virtues
Lee and I were asked to speak in church on the topic of Virtue and Vice.Lee spoke briefly but very powerfully on the topic of Virtue. She lsited the virtues she values. Here is her list. I see it as...
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The old man
My father, Owen Bennion, lives in rural Missouri where he walks every morning on the roads near his home. He is 85 and underwent bypass surgery over ten years ago. He is careful about what he eats and...
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"To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed." Brian Harris This pretty amazing. My only question is...
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On the Roid Again
Years ago when we were all younger I bought an old (1953) GMC flat bet with my friend Bruce Burnham. The truck was used to haul firewood, coal, lodgepole pine, firebrick and whatever else needed to be...
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Veteran's Day
"If you value your freedom thank a vet." I don't know who said that or when I first heard it. I grew up with it. This pairing of violence with liberty and freedom. It is in the hymns I sang as a child...
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