Hey there. I hope everyone is well out there where ever you happen to be in the world. I am fine. Thanks for asking. I will say right off that I've been meaning to do a post but really didn't know what to say and thinking to myself, 'it's gotta be something good, so just wait and post when you have something good.' Well, I don't really have anything really good. But who cares. I mean if we wait for the perfect thing or whatever then who the hell knows when we'd get anything done? Never. Ok? Ok. I think I just want to use this space to write and be less judgmental about it. I've been reading some things online that are really well written. God I wish I could write like some people out there. But I am me and not them and this will have to do.
I have been reading some things about gratitude lately. How it's good to be grateful and how by practicing gratitude then your life will be better, blah, blah, blah. I don't mention the blah, blah, in a negative way. Just that I don't want to go into the details. You get it right? Be grateful. Enough said. Do it! That's what I tell myself. And I've been practicing. I write some things down in my journal every day. And sometimes at night when I can't sleep I do the alphabet backwards and for each letter I think of something I am thankful for. Z. Zippers, I am thankful for zippers. Y. My big Yard of grass that I love to mow in the summer time. X. Ah, X. Skip. It's okay to skip. And so on. And then I am asleep.
Yes, it snowed. Here in Shelby people go crazy when it snows. It's so funny. I don't know how much snow we got but it wasn't a ton like further north. But you'd have thought Armageddon was coming. I was just outside sitting on the porch. The blues and grays and whites of the sky and landscape are so beautiful. And then I came in to write and looked out the window and saw how the sky in the west was turning pink so I had to run out and have a look at that. I'm so thankful to be able to take a moment to see the beauty of the sunset.
I am really hoping to fire this week. I have a bisque kiln cooling tonight. I got a little jump on the loading by pre-wadding all the pots I could today. Maybe tomorrow I can glaze what's in the bisque and load the last bisque which will consist of tall pots I couldn't get in this load. I made a few special pots for Valentine's Day so I better get on the ball if I'm to have them fired in time.
I guess that's about all I have for now. I am feeling good and looking forward to the days ahead. What a good life I have. I am so thankful for it all. No kidding. I'm feeling a bit mushy and I think maybe I should delete that but I know that there are days when I feel sorry for myself or I think my work sucks because I didn't get invited to some show or don't have a lot of money. (That's a huge run-on sentence and if I was a better writer I'd fix that!). He he. Ok. Yes, in this moment...things are perfect.
Thanks for checking in. Cheers. ~Ron
