{"id":55,"date":"2011-01-04T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lablanchepoterie.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2011-01-04T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T20:40:58","slug":"55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” <\/em>~Rumi<\/p>\n

Once long ago, someone asked me if I wasn’t a musician what would I be? \u00a0In an instant I blurted, “I’d be a potter!” \u00a0Where did THAT come from? \u00a0It was perhaps an\u00a0intuitive answer. \u00a0It’s not as if I admired and studied pottery for years and years before I decided to try it out. \u00a0Sometimes I wonder if I made pots in a past life.<\/p>\n

I took my first pottery class in 1986 or thereabouts, because I was a little bored. \u00a0My boyfriend was jealous of the fact that I was in a band, that I had rhythm and could play a few musical instruments. \u00a0Couple that with the irritating position of actually being IN a band (it’s like a dysfunctional family at times, especially when you’re in your twenties), I was ready to put my guitar in its case and tuck it away for a few years. \u00a0That’s when I started taking pottery classes. \u00a0I like creating things with my hands. \u00a0Creating beauty – whether its playing music, making pottery, or something crocheted, knitted, sewn or grown, it’s what I do.<\/p>\n

I took classes for about a year or so and eventually left my boyfriend because no matter what I did he seemed to find fault with me. \u00a0I felt free to take up my guitar once again and I began writing songs. \u00a0A time came when I put away all of my clay things because the business side of growing a music career took so much time and energy. \u00a0It was a time of deal making, finding gigs to play and networking for hours upon hours each day. \u00a0As time passed it didn’t feel creative anymore at all. \u00a0I didn’t even have time to write songs. Eventually the business side of the music industry made me shudder and wince and I finally gave it up when I stubbed my toe on a bag of clay in my friend’s kitchen and began to work the soft brown stuff with my hands re-discovering my creativity.<\/p>\n

Yesterday while in the pottery studio making Matcha tea bowls for La Brulerie, a specialty food shop and coffee roasting house in Hull on St. Joseph, I thought about Japanese tea ceremonies and their beauty. \u00a0I thought about rituals and celebrations and how food and drink are usually involved. \u00a0I’ve always felt that the pottery is as much of a work of art as the food that goes into the pottery, so when people tell me they are not creative I like to point out that the food they cook is art; that the table they dress for a meal is art. They stop and reflect.<\/p>\n

I hope you find some time today to reflect on your own creativity. \u00a0Seeing as how the New Year has begun my wish for you is that you will find something that moves you into a place where you can practise creativity.<\/p>\n

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Freshly made raw Matcha tea bowls<\/p><\/div>\n

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Raw finished Matcha tea bowl with "LM" stamped on foot ring.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” ~Rumi Once long ago, someone asked me if I wasn’t a musician what would I be? \u00a0In an instant I blurted, “I’d be a potter!” \u00a0Where did THAT come from? \u00a0It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lmserafin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}