Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

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April 10, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace I have found that Centering, like clay,...bears the future within it. - M.C. Richards - Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person "Governed by her conviction that "poets are not the only poets" and that artists don't leave their art at the studio, M.C. Richards explores the poetry of personhood through the metaphor of centering, drawn from the craftsmanship of pottery --a potter brings the clay to the center of the wheel, then begins the process of giving the amorphous spinning mass the desired shape." Maria Popova shares more. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out this 1983 essay by M.C. Richards on Centering. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story Big Picture Competition: Celebrating Earth's Diversity A Pandemic Poem-Prayer Live a Life Worth Living Amanda Gorman: The Miracle of Morning Thich Nhat Hanh: Ten Love Letters to the Earth Words Can Change Your Brain 'New Day's Lyric': Amanda Gorman DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 242,314 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More