Jenny Mendes

Finally back home, but with a broken foot.  It should be healed by the time it's spring, he said.  

If you are in Baltimore this weekend, come see me here!!!!

I'm teaching a workshop in Ceramics surface decoration at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts this summer July 21-27 Learn more about it here!!

I will be in Florida this weekend at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.  This is my first time.  Very excited to be getting out of the cold, even for a few days.  I hope it's nice and hot!!  Or warm.  At least no snow is guaranteed!!   Details here!

Sarah Bonetti interviewed me for her blog!  You can read it in English or Italian!!!!!! here!

Something to see, hear, and to take into your heart Listen to the  Heart Sutra Mantra i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Sometimes we hold people in our hearts and they have no idea.  It is a good thing to remember from both perspectives......

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed − Michael Jordan"

Elsa Mora

Oleg Dou

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 606 f. 6. Christine de Pizan. L’Epistre Othea la deesse, que elle envoya à Hector de Troye, quant il estoit en l’aage de quinze ans . Paris, c.1406. ‘The influence of Venus

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”  ― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Ricardo Cavolo and happy 16th birthday Abe!!!

Plus, happy ground hogs day and also Happy Birthday Harris!

catrin welz-stein