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. When you spend hours looking for your little black kitten . . . ... and suddenly... 💙 👁️👁️ 💙 Happy Caturday 😊

Happy Saturday! Here’s some otter cuteness. Keeping each other close is integral to otter survival AND it’s integral to ours. Hold someone’s hand today (literally or metaphorically) 🩵💙 www.youtube.com/shorts/VmaDm...

Starting each day with meditation instead of news/social media has made a mind-blowing difference in my life—the difference between letting that inner voice guide me rather than the cacophonous external world. There’s more ease in bringing my private peace and playfulness with me wherever I go.

I am no longer willing to carry the burden of the scapegoat. That cycle is broken.

Otters have rock pockets youtube.com/shorts/4yUyx...

I still secretly wish we could have Michelle Obama as President. But I also understand that her light would be dimmed by the Machiavellian nature of political office. It’s actually astonishing that we got to experience Obama’s light for the stretch of time we did. Grateful to have that memory.

Happy Friday! Please enjoy this video of my cat Nemesis getting stoned on catnip!

When I lovingly set clear boundaries and they keep getting intentionally crossed to test my limits, my patience with you is just me collecting data. And loving you with compassion, sure— before I turn the compassion inward and let you go altogether. It’s best for the world peace jar that way 💙

Otters have rock pockets youtube.com/shorts/4yUyx...

Tuesday night seems like a good time for an otter timeline cleanse www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

The research psychologist in me becomes weirdly giddy when my ceramic tasks require me to organize and do math. Bringing all of myself to the clay—I contain many 🤗🌈💙 #ceramics #pottery #clayplay

Look at those otter toe beans! 10/10

Julia Roberts: We all feel like, “I can’t turn the news on. I don’t want to hear it.” But we have to hear it. We have to face it. But if we keep inhaling and exhaling, we will prevail.

The synchronized head moves 🤩

A slow Sunday with clay and Big Mama and I can’t help but ponder the void that must exist within one human who has hoarded trillions in resources and it will still never be enough. And then I feel grateful for the richness of my own blessings.

What would squirrels do about a rogue who hoarded a trillion nuts? They’d gang up on that rogue and snatch his nuts! There also aren’t any gorillas with a trillion bananas, or a beaver with a trillion sticks, etc. etc. etc. We are ridiculously out of balance.

I imagine Mother Earth rolling her eyes at the absurdity of the human made human plight.

The fact that people sell their life hours to the outside world and yield to corporate greed frustrates me to no end. No human should be able to hoard away all these resources while everyone else is taxed to do any little life task. It’s absurd. It’s stupid. And it was never meant to be this way.

My mom defends current systemic government oppression much like she defended the abusive (Republican) step father who oppressed us all back then. The connection is not lost on me—I simply hoped her emotional toolbox evolved, especially now that she’s entering her 80s. We don’t have much time left.

Happy Friday! Here’s a honey pot 😍 #ceramics #pottery #wheelthrowing #pottersofbluesky #glazing #clayplay #kilngods

And I have close family members still defending him on the sidelines. It’s astonishing there are still people who rush to his defense. Humanity is so broken.

This squirrel embodies fertility and abundance with attitude! Squirrel: “Did you just call me FAT?”

Happy Friday! 🌼🤗💕 #ceramics #pottery #wheelthrowing #glazing #clayplay #pottersofbluesky

This needs to be memed with thought bubbles 😁

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

This joy expanding practice is spreading throughout the neighborhood and is a great reason to go for a walk. Happy Memorial Day!

Today’s inspiration and timeline cleanse, courtesy of one of my neighbors 😍

I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." - Zen Shin

The flute is now resting in its new ceramic home. My sister is thrilled! 😍🤗🥰 #ceramics #pottery #wheelthrownpottery #glazing #kilngods #clayplay

Wheel thrown, hand pinched, slabbed, coiled, slip casted, sculpted, reduced.

Here’s a little pottery engineering feat—my sister wanted a ceramic flute stand and I could not find an existing model of such a thing so I had to make it up as I went. It turned out to be much simpler than how I started this project. Over the moon! #wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky

Day two with Circe spazzing out over the same fly she hasn’t caught yet. In her defense, she’s been an indoor cat all her life. It’s fun watching Nemesis, my senior cat, who used to be indoor/outdoor and was quite the huntress in her day, stare down Circe’s every move with exasperation and disdain.

Mother’s Day with Big Mama and orange footed friends

Irises and calla lilies from my sister’s garden 🤗 Happy Mother’s Day weekend, sky gazers! 💙

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

It blows me away how powerful water is. A good percentage of our bodies contain this powerful force of nature.

All the soft places

I use a glaze combination that reminds me of these yellow limonite, green chlorite and red claystone mountains. So happy to now have a natural visual reference for creating form beforehand!

Those dorky bumblebees know what they’re doing, don’t let em fool ya

Yellow and purple flowers for me these days. Last time it was purple irises and yellow pincushions from Trader Joe’s. Today I’ve got yellow calla lilies and the some spiky purple flowers. I can get creative with my arrangements using this lotus seed pod frog vase. One of my favorite things!

Finding ways to clear out work that has hung around too long to make room for more creating is a creative process in of itself. And there’s a metaphor in there too—another life guide from Big Mama.

I’m obsessed with this performance—Robert Plant is now Gandalf the White of the musical wizards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3V...

AI also steals from our ability to express individual gifts and be valued by other humans for those gifts, monetarily or otherwise. What happens to the collective human soul after AI has taken over all of our creative endeavors? Watching society move in this direction is deeply depressing.

There’s a lakeside park about 10 minutes away—I go there for the water lilies. Right now, leaf pads are just opening on the water surface (timeline cleanse). This park is amazing—it has so many ways to play, including a community garden with look, smell, taste, touch and listen sensory markers 🥰

When it’s imperative to stay put because you’ve found your people, there’s a balance one must strike that still satisfies chronic wanderlust. I’m so grateful my people knew they should be in a place where I can drive 10 minutes away on my play day and feel as if I’ve traveled somewhere beautiful 🤩

I think most people would prefer this. #Science

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.