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So. Here it is.

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the Question:  How Real is this Internet.  This Web?  Faux Real? or Real?  Like,  really Real.  

the Answer:  it is Really Real.  period.

This name come Up into my awareness,  Out of the Blue.  Paulus Berensohn.  Never heard it before.

I am sitting here in Polvadera New Mexico USA  Earth  and this name appears to me.  I google.  Oh Lordy.

Jan sends me a dvd.  To Spring from the Hand.  the life and philosophy of Paulus Berensohn.  Who is 80 this year.   YOU can google him.  

I watch it.  I watch it.  I watch it.

I call Scott,  who is the Potter that brings his things from Carrizozo to our Farmer's Market here in Socorro and ask…………..do you have a little bit of Clay you can bring me?, so i can make a Pinch Pot?

This morning i took a shower when this house was still so Cold and i got dressed Early and i fed the Goats Early and i broke their water Early and i left…Tay and Chinche at the gate and i went into town to the Winter Saturday Morning Market and was THE ONLY PERSON THERE,   it was COLD,

and Scott brought me two bags of clay.  Messilla Valley clay.

In the dvd Mary Oliver speaks her words,  how she wants her friend Paulus to make her a begging bowl.  I don't want to make a begging bowl.  but I want to make a pinch pot.  I do.

 

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22 responses to “So. Here it is.”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    you’ve reminded me. . .I first heard of Berensohn through the poem by Mary Oliver. . .and followed the trail that way. very real, yes.

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  2. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    grace-
    yes –he is a bit of a god
    i have had his book—‘finding one’s way with clay”
    if i can find it i will send it to you.
    you can most certainly make a pinch pot.
    you’ll need to find a kiln.
    & then see what happens…

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  3. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    check out India Flints post dec 28, she has a new dog, a Koolie, reminds me of Tay; still have to read about Berensohn, will do soon after I’ve been for a walk with Django, sun is shining here and there’s Snow!
    WE ARE REAL XXX

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  4. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    “Watch, now, how I start the day
    in happiness, in kindness.” mary oliver.
    .watch now.. how i am here as many mornings as i can be for exactly this and now this morning will be filled with the thought..the tactile imagination of the clay in your hands, of the pressure of your fingers, of the yielding of the clay as you give it new life in a new form..
    maybe find an old friend of a book and spend time as well..gentle day grace..an as saskia says
    WE ARE REAL XXX

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  5. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar
    patriciaspangler47@gmail.com

    and now can you dig a pit? fill it will all kinds of dried manure etc, fire it up, cover it and see what happens? i have a feeling the results would be amazing. here in NC–well in WV also–the clay is red. while unpacking i came across a red clay figure my son made when he was about 4. he’s 41 now. its head broke off the body over the years but managed to stay close by and i’ll glue it back soon. and every time i look at it, i think this is something i want to do as well–hand shaped bowls, critters, spirits from the earth. and then i want to dig a hole in the ground and fill it up with all manner of things that will burn–smolder–and see what happens. your post this morning … well thank you for it…for every single one of them…yesterday i managed to get a post up, and in doing i thought of you. how steadfast you are. like the sun. blessings to you my very real friend. and big love.

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I feel real. You feel real to me. Everyone who visits here feels real to me too. Think of it, we are piles of ash eventually (dust to dust) after all the juices are evaporated. That’s real too. The clay you hold is real even though I’m just seeing a picture of it. The pinch pot that has begun is real too.
    I love this man. “Everything is art when you’re dressed for it”
    says Paulus Berensohn during filming of a feature length documentary of his life to be released in March 2014. This charming story calls us to pay attention, real attention, to our lives and the world around us.
    http://youtu.be/vrEbfH_p7z4

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  7. ² Avatar
    ²

    YES and we are REAL
    no robots
    we care for you for your live for
    what you let us see of you as a beÏng
    and you for ALL those who come on this blog
    we are as clay you work on
    and we let it happen to eachother
    wish you all happy and of 2014

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  8. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    And here again is why I love the internet…how we help each other discover and learn… A very real thing.

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    what a beautiful man!

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    following trails…following Threads….we learn to go this way and
    to find places we could never have imagined…
    THIS is becoming so vividly CLEAR to me

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    You might need this book. You might suddenly need to make a pinch pot!
    i think in the book he tells how to fire in a primitive pit

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    i saw Your Snow, i saw it and it is so GOOD, to see Your Snow and Django … I FEEL it.
    we are. we are so REAL that it is sometimes scarey.

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    watch now…
    i hope you find an old friend of a book
    and we ARE. So REAL. oh yes.
    Watch now….

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    i wanted red clay. terra cotta. but he has clay from Near here
    Messilla Valley clay
    so. we have what is near.
    I want to THANK for so much, my sister Patricia for giving me the word Steadfast. I cannot think of another word that would have as much meaning to me as Steadfast. To be felt as Steadfast. What a gift this is. Steadfast. I keep saying it. over and over. Have I become SteadFast?????????????? have i? and oh, if i have, then
    Oh and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and oH!
    you cannot know

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    Isn’t that just Beauty FULL? Him in his really Great jacket at
    the laundromat??????

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    but Maria, i the clay you work on too. We work eachother and we become more and more and MORE real. It’s very Beauty Full

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    we Do. we help eachother. it is GRAND.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    isn’t HE? !!!! Yes! I love his LOVE of stuff. How he
    looks ” off ” and is silent and then speaks his Love

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  19. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Yes!!!

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  20. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Watched the movie yesterday, probably will again tomorrow. It’s so full of beauty.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    it is. isn’t it.
    Such Openness to What Wants To Be
    I love him.

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  22. María Manuela Flores Avatar
    María Manuela Flores

    which is the poem? thanks

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