Imperfections
Our imperfections make us gorgeous. Wabi-sabi is a “word-view” from Japanese aesthetics which centers on the willing acceptance of transience and imperfection. It is often used in ceramics when something…
Gentle Defiance
One definition of “Defiance” is “contempt of danger.” The Latin root of the word is disfidare and is a combination of two words: “away” (dis) and fidus “faithful.” The word…
Purring
The constellations of colors created by just two glazes on this urn – one poured over the other – in this few inches tell me everything I need to know…
lights and chocolate
This is one of my recent works for the Weyrich Art Gallery in Albuquerque. It is called “Epiphany” for the star in the midnight blue of the seasons of Advent,…
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This is Kai-the dog. He goes with me wherever I go and challenges with his very being this idea of an angry, domesticated God we seek to describe. Kai-the-dog has…
Humility – and why I am so great at it!
(Jesus said,) “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart.” Mt 11:29 (NRSV) Benedicta Ward, SLG is from a convent in…
“The Letter to the Americans …The Word of the Lord?”
In the blizzard of emails, text-messages and tweets, perhaps we have lost touch with the beauty of a letter. Last week I was in the stationer’s shop. I was…
Jesus and a cocktail
Chimayo is a holy place in New Mexico. It hosts many sites for religious observance from Zen to Christian to Hindu. It is a place of pilgrimage on Good Friday…
teardrop
Of the thousands of pots I have thrown on my potter’s wheel, this recent simple tea bowl is one of my favorites. The opal glaze catches the New Mexican sunlight…