Lily Krakowski on mon 25 aug 03
Dear Vince:
As I said early on I think you and I reach the same spot by different
routes. "When you get to a fork in the road, take it"Yoga said (This was
explained the other night on TV. He lives at the end of a road which, at one
point, splits in two (the fork) and later reunites.)
I will stick with Lucie Rie who said she was not an artist but a potter.
I stick to it exactly for the reasons I wrote earlier. As to the nice
person who wrote in and said that a Military person beyond being a soldier
could be an engineer, a mechanic, etc. I have no problem with potters
saying I work in stoneware, I work in porcelain and so on.
I see all around me a growing contempt for excellence; a growing reluctance
to acknowledge that some have achieved more and IN THAT SENSE are superior
to others. Many on CLAYART snarled at teachers the other day--exhibiting
the contempt for the teaching profession which undermines teaching. (I
remember when children rose to their feet when Teacher entered the room.
Today it is a miracle if children ARE in their seats when teacher comes
in...)
Anyway, Vince, you not only are an artist, you are a charmer....The ladies
of the list know EXACTLY what I am saying, and yes, it IS an honorific.
Lili Krakowski
Constableville, N.Y.
Be of good courage....
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