Jenny Mendes

She just went into the kiln.  I hope she looks ok when she's fired, her clothes and hair should be a lot darker, but I won't know till she's out in a few days.  It's taken me about six months to finally try and finish her.....

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Somebody is loving it!!!!!

http://www.obsoleteinc.com/ If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have is that of your own self-transformation -Lao Tzu

It's my birthday.  I thought I'd start the day off with a smile!!!

Kitty, noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Praise of Hands by  Stuart Kestenbaum It's not just the people who live in the city who've lost the thread that ties them to the woven world of stones and earth, fields alive with pollen and wings. Who among us understands how oceans rise and fall, currents swirling around the planet with messages in bottles floating on the water. When the tide is out we can go to the shore dig clay with our bare hands and make something beautiful from it, a vessel with thin walls that holds a canyon. In both hands, like an offering, we can hold the memory of eroded stones and earth, eons contained in this empty bowl. We can fill it with water that reflects the sky that has witnessed everything since time began, we can drink and be blessed, clouds gathering over us.

Hanuman showing the images in his heart, in Kalighat folk style, ca.1880

‎ "Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time." ~Chogyam Trungpa