Those buckets of shards look familiar! It’s a good feeling, I suppose, to lighten one’s load.

It’s quite a relief! I end up torn about breaking things, sometimes. I hate to waste the embodied energy, but… yeah. With that pile of boxes towering in the living room, I’m tempted to just shard a couple of them. They’re fine pieces and I would like them to go out in the world… but it’s a whole lotta pots to move.

My pottery collection (pots in the kitchen, that is) is now packed. It’s another seven milk crates and five clay boxes. Whew.

Seems too drastic. Certainly understand the maker / destroyer dichotomy of creation similar is seen in the Tibetan sand mandala- a beautiful expression if however temporary. My I suggest an alternative however. A proper burial of the unbroken unneeded ceramic articles. Grab a shovel find a suitable location and return the items back from which they had been sourced. It will give the archeologist a thousand years from now something to ponder.

I hadn’t thought of it in terms of the Krishna/Shiva dichotomy. Your comment brings me back to my experience – as opposed to the objective data of weight and volume.

I’ve written enough to merit a blog post… (start we now yet another draft!)