primalmommy on fri 19 aug 05
I am not sure what the purpose might be of getting a patent -- and then
not making your idea available to those who wanted to buy it because you
"just want to make pots". It doesn't seem likely that you are sending
lawyers around the world to ask for royalties from anyone firing in a
homemade fiber raku kiln, so that can't be the purpose. And I'm guessing
it's not wowing your community of potters, whose reactions seem to range
from "Funny, I invented that, too!" to just generally wondering what you
gain by being so territorial and self important. Do you know the Aesop's
fable of the dog in the manger?
Corpses: I would like to see the exhibit of sliced bodies, just because
I have always wondered what my internal workings looked like. I spent
much of my childhood in a windowless basement room with my dissecting
kit, huffing mutagens while I dismembered pallid preserved frogs,
crayfish, perch, whatever. I can tell you that killing and cleaning
chickens provides a much more glorious display of color. The irridescent
blue of a gizzard is a lovely thing, pink lungs, yellow fat, red blood,
and every organ has its own wet, warm beauty. I imagine the exhibit to
be colorful that way.
Until recently the Toledo Museum of Art displayed its mummy on a glass
shelf under the ornately designed mummy case, and when I was a kid the
museum of natural history at the Toledo Zoo featured a shrunken head.
Until our generations, people (women) washed and laid out their loved
ones, a final combing, a nice suit of clothes, for folks to come to the
parlor to pay respects. To make it real.
I think it's a healthy thing for us to remember the precious
impermanence of life, and the dry husk that is left when our souls move
on. It's a humbling thing, and a lot of people could stand to get over
themselves.
And Tony -- I have walked around for a full day with your sniper story
in my belly. I suspect that all stories are much more complicated than
the telling would allow. There are so many people to be sad for in that
one paragraph that I don't know how to file it away. And maybe it's a
woman's perspective.. but it occurred to me to wonder who made the guy
his last lunch.
Remind me to cross off my list, "send my boys to apprentice with Tony
when they get their draft notices" ;0)
Yours
Kelly in Ohio.. where if ideas were money, I'd be a millionaire... but
time is money, so I'm broke.
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