A rose in a wheat field
A ROSE IN A WHEAT FIELD
In a wheat field, a rose is a weed—even if that rose is voluptuous and vibrant. Translation: it's your job to identify the contexts in which you can thrive and then put yourself in those contexts.
This rings so true for me. I know where I am comfortable and it is in the clay community. I'm finding myself at home in the cycling community too but my spirit medicine is in the mud pits where I thrive.
The clay community is one of the most accepting communities I can think of. We welcome all.
I went to a Mardi Gras parade dressed as Superman along with 25 Superwomen. There was a Civil Rights lawyer, a hospital administrator, a doctor, a welder, an artist, and god knows what else. Short, tall, skinny, volumptous, black, white, yellow, old, young all are welcome. It was just one big group hug. This was very much like the mudpits. All aboard.
A group of 19 mudslingers arrive tomorrow at Brian Nettles Studio in Pass Christian Mississippi (Old Miss). I'm excited and ready to present. We have a great programme put together. I'll try to keep y'all posted.
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Connection is critical because we all have a basic need to feel accepted and to believe that we belong and are valued for who we are. Just look around, there are accepting communities everywhere ...not just in the clay world.
Your biological family, are those people you are related to through genetics. You don’t have a say in who these people are, you are literally born to this family. But that doesn’t mean these people are the ones who will be your support system in life. You can’t always count on having a good biological family. This is where logical family comes in.
Your logical family, are those close friends, your partner(s), your spouse, the people you choose to develop relationships with in your life. These are the people you can count on when things get tough. They are there to help you, sometimes just with a shoulder to cry on, or an ear to listen when you need it. They are the people that choose you as much as you choose them.
Some people are lucky and they find logical family within their biological family.
Look around you, who do you turn to when you need support, who is the first and last person you think of in each day with warmth, good chance that is your logical family.
A.B.
Feel free to deny or walk away fast.
https://www.readersdigest.ca/health/conditions/things-farts-can-reveal-health/
bàn duǒ huā méi guī zài yì duī gǒu shǐ shàng
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/blue-mountain-collectibles-passion-canadian-pottery/
I wish I still had my blue mountain pottery swan.
The Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club Facebook page here.
http://www.bmpcc.com/
https://www.bluemountainpottery.com/
The U.S. shot down a UFO over Lake Huron.
Please don't shoot down anymore peaceful aliens in their flying saucers.
Wú guīju bù chéng fāngyuán
十年树木，百年树人。
Shínián shù mù, bǎinián shù rén
说千道万，不如做事一件。
Shuō qiān dào wàn，bùrú zuòshì yíjiàn.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2174224963520
CC
China has been funnelling cash and support to Liberal candidates.
Even the most damning CSIS leaks from recent weeks have pointed to only about a dozen or so races in which Chinese electoral interference may have affected the outcome in either the 2019 or 2021 federal election — both of which were decided with margins of more than 30 seats, and that there could be MPs in the House of Commons who owe their position to the subversion of a foreign government. Liberal MP Han Dong may have directly collaborated with Chinese interference operations.
As early as 2016, one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first scandals was that he was routinely attending closed-door “cash for access” fundraisers attended by Chinese business figures.
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'By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship’
Available 07/09/23
Florian Gadsby
https://www.floriangadsby.com/
Trudeau said there were “many inaccuracies” in the CSIS documents leaked to The Globe and Mail that indicated a Chinese strategy to try and influence the 2021 election . Trudeau also said concerns about the loyalty of Liberal MP, Han Dong, and others allegedly helped by China’s operatives, as expressed in a Global TV story, constituted “anti-Asian racism .”
many Canadians believe that Trudeau has something to hide.
It's time for Trudeau to just go away.
ST.
Become a part of the movement.
https://mensequality.locals.com/
/MAX/
https://avoiceformen.com/featured/an-introduction-to-the-mens-rights-movement/
https://avoiceformen.com/
The Men’s Human Rights Movement (MHRM) is a complicated and often misunderstood social phenomenon. We address a wide variety of issues that affect men and boys — and ultimately women, as well as the culture as a whole.
/MAX/
https://urbansketchers.org/
but now I've learned that if you have a fist full of cash,
Justin Trudeau makes a pretty hand puppet.
B.B.
Marc Andreessen
https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment?utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack
https://www.andersonranch.org/workshops/?c[]=ceramics
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