jingly jangly...

OK, yesterday is like, a rush of EVERYTHING. I feel like there is this monstrous stack of things to accomplish, like planes stacked up at O'Hare waiting to take off. I was, you know, tense and nervous and couldn't relax, right? Jingly jangly. I s'pose that is how the self-employed dude should be: pushing self forward.
ANYWAY, here is my point: early on I opened the cooled kiln and this little beauty was in there. You will recall that a) I got a new (used!) kiln a week or 2 ago--it is working beautifully and b) late in the day? The last thing on the list was to make on the wheel some mugs, bowls, another teapot like the one pictured below (except with Godzilla up top---never done that before, but that green glaze screams for Godzilla) and here is the thing potters may know:
You might be racing around all day, busy with all this stuff, but you know what relaxes your mind? Throwing, making pots. Sure, its work, but its meditation too.....

(new pottery by Gary Rith)

(me on the bridge behind our house with the dawg, below, the wife with Spike cat, Penny beagle, Buster black lab)



This was the doodle for the teapot, last week....