Keeping the Island Clean

My Island

forefront: pendants to reclaim and green glazes gone wrong
Alice and Micheal: eat breakfast -- a banana for one and a croissant for the other
centrepiece: bananas from Costco -- $2 a clump, I buy them whether I need them or not

One of the hardest places to clean is the island in the kitchen.

Before I can make a full 360 degree circle around it, cleaning it up, the treasured space on the island behind me fills up with other items.

I now believe that an empty space is just an invitation for someone to put something there. 

One of the thrills of making pottery is bringing it home from the Pilling kiln. Whatever it is that has been fired gets laid out on the counter for everyone to see. There were broken mugs and bowls whose glaze had dripped across each other’s surfaces, and so were glued to one another. As well, Rebecca brought home necklaces that hadn’t taken well to glazes last year. She is hoping to fix the mistakes, rather than turn the objects back into the earth. Only time will tell if she can master the art of repair. She has been working on a paper today about “Questions in The Journals of Knud Rassmussen”, a movie that she uses in some of her film classes. The deadline for submission was 4 pm. She submitted her paper at 10:30 pm, clearly too late to meet the deadline. Between broken mugs, glazes that have misfired and missed deadlines, today has not been her best day. But it has been a day – not one I would have wanted to miss.