Squandering your reputation
I’ve been
in the Akar Yunomi Show for quite a number of years. I was getting worried when
I hadn’t been invited until January. I always thought I got an invite earlier.
I haven’t been good at documenting my work but I was able to find a couple of
periods in my yunomi flirtation. I like
to change it up every year. It’s the fear of success syndrome since my cups are
usually gone in the first hour. I remember
there was a bit of an uproar from someone that my yunomi’s had handles and that
wasn’t a true yunomi. They are not handles they are signatures. I put this
heavy slip on some I made yesterday and went out to play with my man machine to
digest what to do next with them. Would the slip suffice or would I put handles
on them? After blowing the driveway with
my trusty Honda the answer was clear. Put handles on them for heavens sakes.
People like their work signed. It took me a long time to acquire this bad
reputation of putting handles on everything. I could squander my reputation in
a heart beat if I’m not careful.
If you try
to teach a fish to climb a tree it will spend the rest of it’s life thinking it
is stupid. Oh you’re not allowed to say
stupid anymore. You will spend the rest of your life being minimally
exceptional. If they keep inviting me I just might get the definition of a
yunomi right yet. I hope not!
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