As Time Goes By

Yesterday I joined my farm friends for a small mask making workshop alone with Randa’s group on manifesting. Six masks were made in all, and everyone seemed to have fun out there on that big porch while it rained, and then birds sang a thank you song for the sunshine returning, ok, slightly.


I completed a test fire on my new kiln, and it doesn’t even need to be calibrated. I will do a bisque fire as soon as these masks are ready, and we can raku after that. I am asking they do their masks in B&W, but to be honest, I would love to offer color.

The B&W idea came from realizing there are not any books on contemporary masks, and many books on even glazes, which should be in living color, are in B&W due to costs, but what use is a book on glazes in B&W? So I decided to try to get masks made in B&W for a book of masks on B&W. Right? Makes sense! or maybe not! :)

Steve and I cut boards for work areas just prior to everyone showing up. It worked out well, I will pick the masks up soon and bring them here to dry I think. I am hoping to do the raku at the farm.
I am sure everyone will be happy with their masks, and have something to take home to hang on their walls. They don’t yet know what a wonderful experience they will be having with raku.

The group is interesting, people trying to manifest what they want, people always manifest what they want, however, we are all doing that all day, everyday. Changing your awareness of what you want is the hard part, becoming aware that you are in fact creating your reality, and maybe what you are creating is not so great as what it could be is an awareness that sooner or later, is may be time to come to in life.

Change of this nature, after a lifetime of careless creating can be difficult. Especially because ego is so entrenched, and people cannot see it when it is so obvious to others. We are alway able to see others short comings, but the real power comes from seeing your own, and earnestly wanting change. Not wanting to be the leader, wanting to teach, wanting to be in charge of others visions, not in speaking for others, or judging others, but just knowing for yourself that your life could be better.

And that in the end, after the seeing is asking, and waiting, and just being with a stillness in waiting that brings about all wonderful things. Life is living us, you see. It is not that we are living life, life is living us. All that we can do is see what life wants to do , and allow to to do so wonderfully, perfectly, without interference on our part. If we can see with enough humility, we begin to have the grace to let go of all that is less than the divine purpose we all share, allowing life to live us, beautifully and perfectly. In this a highest purpose is fulfilled for all of us. It is the most we can do, and if we do this, we will be content, and bring healing, and love to everyone.