ferenc jakab on sun 8 oct 00
>
> I hope this country will start to breathe again.
> I also invite any of you who would like to come and visit me in my
town,
> to feel free to contact me. These years were not a proper time to invite
> guests, but now things have changed.
> I send you many warm regards from Belgrade, and wish you all the best,
>
> Ana
I hope you and the Serbian people can now find the freedom and happiness you
wish for.
Feri,
Safe in Australia.
Richard Jeffery on sun 8 oct 00
Ana
I think we're all delighted - watching the scenes on television was very
emotional. To achieve such a reversal without major bloodshed is something
you all can be proud of.
I'm sure the road ahead will not always be easy - I suspect you have to
measure real attitude change in multiple generations - but our thoughts go
with you...
Richard
Bournemouth UK
www.TheEleventhHour.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Ceramic Arts Discussion List [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On
Behalf Of Ana Garic
Sent: 07 October 2000 23:13
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: From Belgrade
Dear ceramists,
I am happy to let you know that Belgrade is really a different city
today! It seems we finally made it!
I receive the Clayart mails daily, and I realized through this way of
communication how artists, especially ceramists, are more or less the same
all around the world. Warm and kind people, I would say.
I am glad Janet put my mail on the list. I would have never done it
myself, although I had the need to let you people know how it all looks like
from this aspect.
I thank You, Ann, for thinking of us. After all this thrilling years in
my country, after being in the headline news for who knows how many times, I
taught everybody was really tired of us, like we were tired of all this.
I hope this country will start to breathe again.
I also invite any of you who would like to come and visit me in my town,
to feel free to contact me. These years were not a proper time to invite
guests, but now things have changed.
I send you many warm regards from Belgrade, and wish you all the best,
Ana
----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Hunter
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:19 AM
Subject: OT Belgrade, more or less
> I really appreciated Janet's post about the potter in Belgrade.
> Having an e-mail from a fellow potter there made the situation more
> personal. I thought of her every time I listened to news or saw
> photos of Belgrade this week. I hope, Janet, you will let us know if
> she is safe and convey our congratulations that Milosovic is finally
> out.
>
> I sent that post on to a friend of mine who is social studies
> curriculum specialist for our schools and she included it in a packet
> for teachers working up a unit on the electoral process in the U.S.
> and the importance of preserving the right to free elections and
> orderly transfer of power.
>
> Off topic? Sometimes the topic is not what we think. Let's see if I
> can make the connection. Okay, I make these mugs (or whatever), by
> hand, one at a time. If I share one with you, we have closed the gap
> between us, across the table or across the planet. It's been a long
> time since I read Martin Buber's book "I and Thou", but I if I am not
> misremembering his concept, this craft thing helps to transform our
> relationship into one of "thouness". It makes a little rapport.
>
> Just read this quotation from Van Gogh to his brother Theo, "I tell
> you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more
> truly artistic than to love people."
>
> Two weeks ago I was at a show and met a woman who had been in the
> first clay class I took, in the mid-70s. I didn't remember her at
> all, but she knew I was still involved in clay. She had left pottery
> after that brief experience, but she began to tell me how much
> something had meant to her from a Don Reitz workshop. She didn't
> even know his name, just "that guy from Wisconsin who did a
> workshop". What he said was, " Find something you love to do, and
> figure out a way to make a living doing it." She works with mentally
> ill patients at a state hospital. Her passion is gardening, so she
> started a program to teach mental patients to garden. And she quotes
> Don Reitz to them. I think this story relates to the points above.
> If not, at least it shows the remarkable power of Reitz; my kids
> don't remember anything I said 25 years ago!
>
> -Ann Hunter
> Wichita Falls, TX. Getting ready for our first Empty Bowls event
> here next week.
>
>
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Ana Garic on sun 8 oct 00
Dear ceramists,
I am happy to let you know that Belgrade is really a different city
today! It seems we finally made it!
I receive the Clayart mails daily, and I realized through this way of
communication how artists, especially ceramists, are more or less the same
all around the world. Warm and kind people, I would say.
I am glad Janet put my mail on the list. I would have never done it
myself, although I had the need to let you people know how it all looks like
from this aspect.
I thank You, Ann, for thinking of us. After all this thrilling years in
my country, after being in the headline news for who knows how many times, I
taught everybody was really tired of us, like we were tired of all this.
I hope this country will start to breathe again.
I also invite any of you who would like to come and visit me in my town,
to feel free to contact me. These years were not a proper time to invite
guests, but now things have changed.
I send you many warm regards from Belgrade, and wish you all the best,
Ana
----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Hunter
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:19 AM
Subject: OT Belgrade, more or less
> I really appreciated Janet's post about the potter in Belgrade.
> Having an e-mail from a fellow potter there made the situation more
> personal. I thought of her every time I listened to news or saw
> photos of Belgrade this week. I hope, Janet, you will let us know if
> she is safe and convey our congratulations that Milosovic is finally
> out.
>
> I sent that post on to a friend of mine who is social studies
> curriculum specialist for our schools and she included it in a packet
> for teachers working up a unit on the electoral process in the U.S.
> and the importance of preserving the right to free elections and
> orderly transfer of power.
>
> Off topic? Sometimes the topic is not what we think. Let's see if I
> can make the connection. Okay, I make these mugs (or whatever), by
> hand, one at a time. If I share one with you, we have closed the gap
> between us, across the table or across the planet. It's been a long
> time since I read Martin Buber's book "I and Thou", but I if I am not
> misremembering his concept, this craft thing helps to transform our
> relationship into one of "thouness". It makes a little rapport.
>
> Just read this quotation from Van Gogh to his brother Theo, "I tell
> you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more
> truly artistic than to love people."
>
> Two weeks ago I was at a show and met a woman who had been in the
> first clay class I took, in the mid-70s. I didn't remember her at
> all, but she knew I was still involved in clay. She had left pottery
> after that brief experience, but she began to tell me how much
> something had meant to her from a Don Reitz workshop. She didn't
> even know his name, just "that guy from Wisconsin who did a
> workshop". What he said was, " Find something you love to do, and
> figure out a way to make a living doing it." She works with mentally
> ill patients at a state hospital. Her passion is gardening, so she
> started a program to teach mental patients to garden. And she quotes
> Don Reitz to them. I think this story relates to the points above.
> If not, at least it shows the remarkable power of Reitz; my kids
> don't remember anything I said 25 years ago!
>
> -Ann Hunter
> Wichita Falls, TX. Getting ready for our first Empty Bowls event
> here next week.
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
__
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
melpots@pclink.com.
>
BiljanaNW@AOL.COM on mon 30 oct 00
Dear Ana, I have sent you an email a while ago to check on you and see how
you are doing. You have not responded and I wonder if you are OK. Please
send me a note to let me know how are things going. I am in Honolulu and am
leaving tomorrow for Bangkok Thailand but will be receiving email.
All the best to you, Biljana
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