Pottery

My third book...

My aunt, Aunt Mary's Pottery.

She also was inspirational.

She had arthritis and polio, and yet she never gave up, and she made pottery from the age of 11 until she was in her mid-80s, and all the things that happened to her.

So we have heard so many tales about candy, first of all.

Both of those books were published before you ever came to talk to my classroom.

But she actually was writing Aunt Mary's Pottery during some of the years that she's come out.

So we watched an and followed through that journey.

And this one is Potterypalooza 2026 at 45 Degree Gallery over in old Colorado City.

So I just bought from tall pines pottery the other day i bought a little mug that i am obsessed with and i just was like pottery that somebody you've met made just feels different in your hand the coffee tastes better in it so i want to go to pottery palooza

why don't you just do all yours so that your computer doesn't die with all your notes yeah that would be a bummer

And yeah, great.

And then I get this a little bit at Pottery.

If I'm just in my own zone at Pottery, I get this.

But the only thing at Pottery that throws me off is I am a little socially worried and awkward there.

Because I do really like all the people there, but I do a lot of reviewing my own social interactions and feeling embarrassed by myself.

And I don't necessarily feel like anybody's forcing that versus it's in my head.

Do you know what domain I own?

I think it's how to teach pottery or something? How to

do pottery.com.

Oh, wow.

How do you sell something like that on the open market for a massive amount of money, I wonder?

And it's like a big brand.

And then they, they want

how to do pottery.com. You should, you should go reach out to the fucking ceramic school people and see if they want to buy it.

Today, I would like to use the symbolism of how a potter transforms clay into a useful vessel to show the Lord's guiding hand in our lives.

I'm indebted to Brian Christensen, Assistant Press, Professor of Ceramics here at BYU.

He generously gave of his time to both demonstrate and explain the process of forming clay pots.

The slides that you will see show one of his current students engaged in the ceramic process and some of Professor Christensen's completed pieces.

I would have lifted a car off of you.

I do want to know, after this episode, has Pottery Barn reached out to you too? Because I feel like there should be some type of collaboration or something happening.

I like where your head's at.

I

like that a lot.

I like Pottery Barn.

I like fine home furnishings.

You know what I forgot to tell you?

I remember that one.

And nothing to do with pottery.

And so then I kind of like blew my mind a little bit and like totally opened up.

It's like, well, I don't have to make content only about pottery.

Like I can make about anything.

People are interested in like way more than just that.

So that's when I really shifted this year to start like thinking about how I can integrate, like still have pottery be like the core of my content, but also open it up so that, because like, there's so many people that are interested in buying pottery that don't really care about how to make it.

Right.