Elizabeth Priddy on sat 13 may 06
I resisted entering this thread but it is so true,
what you all are saying!
I eventually named my pottery concern Priddy Clay
Studio. It has it all encapsulated, my name, the
media, and that it is where I do it.
Not one confused person yet and I sell all manner of
things when I sell, but they are all mine and made in
or about my studio. From a paper painting to a DVD,
it is all clay related, and may have a bit of clay
dust on it (except the DVD's which are sealed up).
And as to mud in your name, even with 2 d's it is
still a denigration of the stuff you use.
Yes, it is cute. Just what I want to be thought
of...a cute kid with some cool plaything. I do like
the jeans though.
I think I probably feel even more harshly about this
since moving next to a salt marsh. The mud in my
ditch is full of live things and dead things and
decomposing things and shitte and regurgitations and
smelly marsh things that are slimy. That is mud. And
crepe myrtles grow great in it, as do frogs and
lizards. But the stuff I stick my hands into and work
with and love and pamper is not that stuff. Not that
stuff at all. Nor is it the relatively clean soil
that I plant plants into, as it also has organic
matter in it. Things don't grow in clay except molds
(and they can live on air, which is why you keep your
clay bags sealed) unless you have some seriously
contaminated product.
WC Fields on why he never drank water:
"water! never touch the stuff, young man,
fish F*#k in it!"
and me on mudd:
"mud! never touch the stuff,
worms F*#k in it!"
And for anyone with hackles up and mud in their name
and business cards and successful potters all: other
people think this too, they just don't tell you. And
if you have gone the Tom Coleman route, of "the
muddpie dilemma" fame and other fames, you are in
better company than I, so sleep easy and ignore this,
as you have obviously surpassed any need to listen to
anything I say...
But it is like the recent business of sending things
to sell to kids, do it at your own risk. If anybody
ever tries to sell anything to Logan prior to the time
when he has money of his own, instead of directing his
purchasing concerns to me, they will be banned from
our house, our mailbox, and our money. That's why he
goes by his middle name, in a world full of phishing,
he will always know when someone knows him or not by
whether they call him John.
Can you imagine the pressure on a kid with no money
and possibly parents with no money, being solicited by
someone they like and admire to buy something from
them? Please. Buying and selling is adult swim only,
just because it is mean to the kids who don't have any
money. And despite the size of the SUV they arrive in
at school, they might be house and car poor and you
would never know. I wasn't just being an ass about
this, I have good reasons for most of what I say. I
just am trying not to bore you with the details.
Solicitations arriving at my home always made me feel
like crap, because we were concerned about getting
anything on the table, and I knew I couldn't please
whoever wanted something by buying their fine thing.
I was in a hard place in French class when we were
given the "opportunity" to make something good to eat
and have a party in french class. I had to explain to
my teacher that I didn't have money for groceries. We
used stuff she put up in the summer and rarely ate
meat or anything else french, in my limited
imagination of french cooking. She gave me a good
recipe for French onion soup and five dollars to buy
the stuff with. I was humiliated, and for no good
reason. She didn't tell anybody, but she knew. And
so I switched to Latin the next year, "to help with my
SAT's coming up". Sure wish I spoke french better now
that I love french food and can cook it whenever I
please. Wonder why I rarely do, though.
Back to mail solicitations...nd this was with stuff
not directed directly to me by my teacher, my friend.
You may think you know your kids inside and out, but
money is a different story, and it changes. And you
never know how a kid might internalize that failure to
meet some standard they percieve. So I recommend
leaving them out of the buying loop until they have
jobs (that are providing discretionary money, not
money they earn to help out at home).
Imagine all that said above not with a stern tone, but
a gentle voice, one that has been there and back and
is just trying to give you a clue, not a lecture.
I reject emotocons as being an inferior way to
communicate to the words, of which I use way too many
and type incorrectly from time to tyme...so you will
just have to trust me on this.
For anyone that has seen me live or in person, they
know how easily I laugh and that I am full spectrum as
I can go awful serious too.
If you got down to here, I count you as a good friend,
because this has been rather tangential. So thanks
for listening.
E
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
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lee love on sat 13 may 06
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Elizabeth Priddy wrote:
>
> Imagine all that said above not with a stern tone, but
> a gentle voice, one that has been there and back and
> is just trying to give you a clue, not a lecture.
Could have saved over 30 words with one emoticon. ;^)
I only use them as a laxative for anal friends. :^)
>If anybody
>ever tries to sell anything to Logan prior to the time
>when he has money of his own, instead of directing his
>purchasing concerns to me, they will be banned from
>our house, our mailbox, and our money.
How do we teach kids to live in a consumer society? Check this
essay out, about how America has left its deeper dream:
http://www.jacobneedleman.com/TwoDreams.pdf
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth Priddy on sat 13 may 06
lee asked:
How do we teach kids to live in a consumer society?
___________
Before reading your essay, which I will because it
interests me:
By not having them watch commercials.
TIVO their programs and watch them with them.
Don't take them with you to Walmart.
Don't take them to the grocery store.
(both places are open late, shop after their bedtime)
Take them to the library.
Let them see you read. Books, papers, image-free
text.
Take them to Goodwill, thrift, salvation army type
stores and give them 5 bucks. Take them to Target and
give them five bucks. Let them decide where they
would rather shop.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. And reform your idea of
"used"
Say no to consumer driven items and yes to adventure
or learning items. This means they can buy all the
parts for an incredible computer and make it
themselves, but the ipod ain't happening til they earn
it themselves with grass-cutting/burger-flippin money.
Make them pay for their own car insurance before they
get to drive.
I could go on. But I am in the off-topic ranting
zone. Although, this pertains directly to the making
do with what you've got thread.
Thank God the boy is only appraohing 2 and I still
have time to steel my resolve.
And you bet I will.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
And the love of stuff is the root of all clutter.
E
still spring cleaning, spent all morning in my new,
airy, echo-ing in the vast emptiness, studio working
on egret tile pieces for my sale/show studio kiln
opening July 3. Come see the tall ships and then come
see me! I am making hotdogs and selling Fired Works!
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
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