The Potter's Wheel on Mulberry Street
Margaret Chen had thrown clay for thirty-seven years in her small studio on Mulberry Street in Portland. Every morning before her hands touched the wheel,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Proverbs 16:3.
Margaret Chen had thrown clay for thirty-seven years in her small studio on Mulberry Street in Portland. Every morning before her hands touched the wheel, she did something her mentor had taught her back in 1989: she closed her eyes, pressed her palms flat against the cool wedging table, and whispered, "Not my vision today — Yours." She told her students this was the most important technique she could teach them.…
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