[Clayart] Cookie cutters

[Barry Salaberry]

It’s a beautiful morning on the lake as I paddle my canoe across to a beach
where I plan to have a bite for lunch.

But this all suddenly and without warning is abruptly changed, as a
speedboat and towed skier come whizzing by, not only intruding with the
racket, but the wake just about sends me for a swim.

What am I do about this?  Do I get upset?  Or will this just provide me
with an opportunity to deepen my inner immersion into that space of Peace
which always is within my grasp.

It reminds me of the time when I was visiting with a coupled of friends,
and noted that my 15-year-old daughter was making me mad.  They both
blurted out, Hey, nobody made you mad…you decided to get mad.

There’s always a choice.

We can get upset about the choices other people make with their experiences
in clay, or we can choose to leverage that into the opportunity to do
absolutely what we know we have to do with our day.  Our work expresses
ourselves, and I think it deserves our full attention, regardless of the
noise in the room.

-- 
Barry Salaberry

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings tunes without the words
And never stops - at all!"
                      -Emily Dickinson
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