Joyce Lee on tue 9 dec 97
Thank you for the many suggestions about placing a signature on a pot
after it has been glaze-fired. I appreciate all of them including the
one that bordered on insulting. I give you the benefit of the doubt and
assume you were being humorous - I just needed to be there. Just in case
you think I was licking my wounds when I didn't respond immediately,
THAT, my friends, will not happen in our lifetime. I didn't respond
because I was happily, and ignorantly, selling my SIGNED pots at my
first-ever sale. I received much praise (admittedly misplaced; they're
still intermediate level pots) and EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER LOOKED TO SEE
IF I'D SIGNED THE POT before purchasing, EVERY ONE. When I get to the
level of Warren MacKenzie, I won't sign my pots either but THAT'S not
going to happen in our lifetime. AND, HotShot, I don't need ego
scratching from anybody. When, if ever, I reach the exalted level of a
Tony Clennell where everybody can recognize my pots on sight, then
perhaps my ego, too, will have expanded to the point (as in pointed
head, perhaps) that I will consider saying, "The pot is enough. No
signature needed." I have a great deal more to say, but think perhaps I
should try modeling restraint when faced with such a wide-open
opportunity to make flip, meaningless remarks.
Joyce
A happy potter in the Mojave
joyce on thu 14 feb 08
Drat. Moderators around here can never let any one person get by
with anything without
others rushing in to see why a Broken Rule can't apply to them.
Here goes............ I've heard from many of you that you resent
posts where the author
isn't identifiable .... and some of you have said that you, too, are
going to stop adding your
name. Beginning now, posts that don't have an identifiable something
at the end will
not run.
Yes, I've "allowed" Dayton to get by with this. He seems to need to ignore any
written guidelines ...... even in a group he has chosen for
himself. As I see it, we
each need to belong somewhere. Some of us (definitely a minority) seek
out groups that behave in a civilized manner ... one of the
hallmarks of Clayart
most of the time...... and then proceed to be the resident something
or other......
for some it's a Rebel; for others, an Ignoramus works.
I personally would like to see Dayton find a place on Clayart....... his own
niche......... a safe place....... but if the more Civilized Folk are going to
join him, instead of enticing him to join us........ then the moderators will
have to deal with that with the only tool we have ...... the Delete Key.
Dratdratdrat.
Joyce
In the Mojave Desert of California, U.S.A.
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