Actually anything in the pottery world….I am now the uncertain owner of a pottery wheel, kiln, slab roller, etc etc etc as it relates to pottery. My daughter is into art and has done some classes on the pottery wheel etc. We had an opportunity to get all this stuff (much of it I am uncertain as to how to use it) for next to nothing. The retail on the stuff is over $7000. Some people by their kids a piano, we got a pottery wheel (and glazes, sponges, tool, forms, ???).

I wish we could just turn the kids loose on this stuff but they need to learn how to use it and use it safely. (So do I!). So I will be deeply involved in their learning and I will learn along the way.

It would have been so easy to say no to this opportunity. I had to drive to PA to get the stuff. We need to run some new wiring in the basement, etc etc etc. It would have been easy but it also might have been an opportunity lost.

I am not saying my kids will be the next Wedgewood or Ming Dynasty creators but you never know. I am looking forward, kind of (and as long as my golf game remains in tact), to the entire experience. In other words, I will learn some new things in a subject I know little. I could argue that is a waste of time but every so often I do think we need to step out of our comfortable routines and do something new.

When is the last time you did something totally new? A while back a buddy of mine took an acting class that used Shakespeare. He loved it. What are you missing?

I wouldn’t mind taking Swing dance lessons either but that will have to wait til the crock is done.

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