Before I knew a God (a small cosmic report) Before I knew a god there was a river —not content with flowing, it kept minutes: payroll, ledger, current accounts.I leaned my ear to its transaction (it hummed in prime numbers),and the lark — hired that morning as a punctuation mark —sang a footnote so precise … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v7: An absurdist version – in the style of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing by Emily Reason
Emily Reason’s Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing arrives — or feels as if it arrives — at the crossroads between a how-to manual and a cultivated meditation on craft. On the surface it is a pedagogical text: clear sequences of steps, attentive photographs (or visual descriptions), and practical troubleshooting for the awkward moments every novice … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing by Emily Reason
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v6: A meditative version
Before I knew a god there was a river —its slow patience taught my feet the measure of water.I moved with that cadence, small and attentive;the lark’s first song fell into the hollow of listening. Before I knew a god there was a star,a patient light that kept no hurry with the dark.I leaned into … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v6: A meditative version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Tom Rath’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 occupies an odd but revealing niche at the intersection of self-help pragmatism and organizational psychology. Framed less as a conventional argument-driven monograph and more as a practical toolkit, the book’s modest ambition is its strength: it promises not a wholesale reinvention of the self, but a reorientation — to pay attention … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v5: A comical version
Before I knew a god there was a river —a muddled, polite thing that mislaid its oar.I drifted to its rhythm like a man to free coffee;the lark tried a solo and hit the wrong note spectacularly. Before I knew a god there was a star,a glittering gossip in the sky’s dressing room.I leaned close, … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v5: A comical version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course
Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course presents itself less as a conventional how-to manual and more as a practiced teacher’s syllabus made beautifully portable. Its ambition—bridging the tactile minutiae of clay work with the larger problems of form, function and aesthetic intention—makes it an especially welcome book for the contemporary ceramicist who wants technique to serve … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v4: A darker version
Before I knew a god there was a river —not singing but pulling, a black lung drawing me down.I followed that current like a confession;the lark answered like something that remembers falling. Before I knew a god there was a star,a frost-scribed page in the throat of night.I read the margin until the ink bled … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v4: A darker version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing by Angelica Pozo
Angelica Pozo’s Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing reads at first like a craftsman’s primer and, on closer inspection, performs the subtler work of a modest modus operandi. It is both a handbook and a primer in temper — practical, kindly, and quietly persuasive. Where many how-to volumes insist on mastery as a destination, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing by Angelica Pozo
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v3: A more narrative version
Before I knew a god there was a river,its pulse a promise. I moved toward that cadence;the lark took the promise in its throatand gave me a first, clear song.Before I knew a god there was a star,spilling small iron-lit pages across the dark.I read until the night turned colour —no hand stopped me from … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v3: A more narrative version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Making and Installing Handmade Tiles by Angelica Pozo
Angelica Pozo’s Making and Installing Handmade Tiles sits at an interesting crossroads: part technical manual, part artist’s manifesto, and part visual essay. The book announces itself as a practical companion for the person at the wheel or the trowel, but its most enduring achievement is how it insists that technique and meaning are inseparable. The … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Making and Installing Handmade Tiles by Angelica Pozo
The New Renaissance Mindset 