January 2013 Archives

running into a new year

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_MG_1055 copy.jpgRunning into the new year I scanned back through the photos I took in 2012.  Images catch in my hair like strong fingers and memories of objects I have wanted to make since I was 16, 26, 36 and 46. It has been a year of revisiting ideas through bowls and plates. I am looking forward to 2013  and how it brings new twists turns to projects and ideas.

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"i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty six and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me"
--
Lucille Clifton