I made this for my friend's daughter who is trying out pottery. I've been making her little instructional videos and this one is a timelapse of me trimming and putting a handle on a mug. Thought I would share in case you guys find this interesting.

Someone shared this with me who said it had been circulating in the Hasidic community. Will likely offend a lot of people these days.

Hi everyone, I haven't been active in Solid Ground for a while, but I am still alive and kicking! I now work as personal assistant to a mind-bendingly weird and diva-esque artist-lip-syncher-performer named Fiona Blueberry. She is blissfully clueless about politics and seems to be completely unaware of the culture wars. Working with her is a breath of fresh air. If you need a mood lift, I encourage you to watch this video we made together. Happy 4th, everyone! Wishing you fun/love/peace on this holiday. :) www.fionablueberry.com

Way back in 2011-ish an acquaintance at the Catholic Worker handed me Personalism by Emmanuel Mounier. I tried to read it but it was too dense for my attention span at the time. Now I wish I could find my copy. Today every individual impulse is funneled into movements or management: politics, healthcare, education, hiring, online algorithms. We are conditioned to act as totalizing machines: this person is conservative/liberal, educated/ignorant, etc. We have forgotten to see the beauty of the individual with nuance. I wonder how we can, like the proverbial mustard seed, spread this idea of personalism within our spheres of influence.

With the Minneapolis uprising and media frenzy I am grateful to not share a household with a leftist. I asked myself yesterday morning "why I am so tense?" I was tense because last year this would have resulted in extreme tension in my household.