Nautical Know-How

"Before you try to steer,
learn to row."

--Aristophanes

via Peter Green
and his novel about Lucius Cornelius Sulla,
Roman dictator,
The Sword of Pleasure

"Whirl Is King"

(Or, "Kinesthetic Learner.")

Aristophanes comes to mind each time I sit down at the wheel. Putting the bowl in the creek and watching the water surround it --working against, working with, working around it-- seemed appropriate too as an extension of the Greek comic poet's claim and of the power of the spiral, the power of flow.

And, I like when a bowl comes out okay.

If I practiced more, such success would be a less remarkable thing, but for now when a decent piece of pottery comes out of the kiln, I'm taking photos.

(The last shot: a cordial nod to the fellow veterans of this particular and ursine alma mater.)