I've been struggling with pottering. Here's why: Ceramics are very much permanent. Unless I put a pot in a flowing stream, it's not going anywhere, and even in a stream it's going to be a long time before it returns to the Earth. I have a real problem with that because I like to make pots and I don't want to pump permanent things into the world. I frequently don't like what I make after it's been out of the kiln for 2 weeks or so. This fact, plus the permanency of ceramics do not equal a good outcome for the Earth. We do need pottery though for utilitarian reasons and for all of the indescribable beautiful reasons art exists. But lets face it, I don't need 20 plates, cups, containers, sculptures, etc. a month. What do I do? I love making ceramics! Luckily, my pottery interests lately have been in creating what I am calling Earth Shrines, and I don't think they need to be fired. It may even be better if they are not fired....