As we wait for the anagama to cool I look at old tests of found materials trying to imagine what information the new tests might impart. I often tell people that I feel because potters have to imagine how things shrink and transform in the heat of the kiln we tend to be optimists who can see into the future. However at this moment in time I am ready for the night to be too dark to see into the future so I can accept the kiln load of pots as they are and let what will be, be.
"Now let the night be dark for all of me.
Let the night be too dark for me to see
Into the future. Let what will be, be."
Robert Frost, from "Acceptance," The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (Holt, 1979)
Let the night be too dark for me to see
Into the future. Let what will be, be."
Robert Frost, from "Acceptance," The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (Holt, 1979)
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