taking time out for me
This morning, I woke up shaking and nervous, unable to eat.
This morning, I put clay to the wheel for the first time in almost five years…
Under the blessedly disinterested eye of master potter Ken Matsuzaki.
I haven’t thrown since my son was born, not really. I own a wheel, and ordered all the parts I’d need to convert it to DC when we moved overseas, and my ex even bought me some exorbitantly expensive clay. Our life in Dubai was such poison that I couldn’t fathom creation. My wheel sits in the back of my closet now, gathering dust. I can’t find my pottery tools, though I’m almost certain they came back from Dubai and are in the house, somewhere.
The body remembers. It’s a good lesson for us all, who are recovering from the broken times. The body remembers. I think somewhere in our cells, the body remembers how to be joyful, and childlike, and new. If we could just turn off our minds, and let the body think, we might be able to heal so much of ourselves. This single mother feels changes on a quantum level this day, just for doing and being and facing fears.
I’ll challenge you to this, then: get up. Get going. Choose something wild, exotic, dreamy. Take a drawing class. Join a cycling group. Learn ballroom dancing. Close your eyes and stick a pin in a map and go there. Strike out in a new direction, or pick up old dreams and trace their threads back to an old, entirely new you.
For any of you interested in just how much of a master Matsuzaki is…
Tags: healing, Ken Matsuzaki, learning, pottery, single-mom, single-motherThe foundation of Matsuzaki’s work is strongly rooted in the Mingei philosophy. The basis of Mingei philosophy is that work is the “hand-crafted art of ordinary people” and that there is beauty in everyday, ordinary objects. Matsuzaki apprenticed with Tatsuzo Shimaoka who was a student of Shoji Hamada, both named National Living Treasures by the Japanese Government. Matsuzaki’s use of fire, manipulation of flame and ash distinguish his work from that of his mentors, and has made him a master in his own right.
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