07/24/05
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We received an email from Les Haworth with Laguna Clays in Southern California concerning some business we are doing and at the end of his email he included a quote from a person he credits as being his mentor:
“When I was in elementary school my teacher pinned a note to my shirt for my parents to read. It said, ‘Charlene is not coloring inside the lines.’ My parents contacted the teacher and asked the teacher what the purpose of coloring inside the lines was.’ The teacher didn’t quite know what to say, except that the direction she had given was to color inside the lines. My dad told me to color any way I wanted to and when I was done coloring, to draw a black line around my picture." ~~ Charlene Felos
Last evening we went to the Klondike Days Exhibition to the Telus Stage concert which featured
Jeff Healey. Jeff who has been blind since childhood plays guitar like no one else. Because of the nature of the concert we were able to get right at the fence infront of the stage and were literally 20 feet from where Jeff was sitting. As we watched him play he sometimes used body movements and facial expressions which were not the same as what sighted people
ordinarily use. Cindy realized that Jeff Healey is a perfect example of what Charlene was talking about. Jeff Healey colours outside the lines with everything he does because he has never seen the lines. He has been free to colour anyway and anywhere he likes because no one has drawn a boundary for him to follow.
Putting it all together is very enlightening. Too often we get bound up in what is expected, rather than colouring where we want. Quite a lesson…and the concert rocked too! Jeff has beaten cancer twice and is just getting back into performing. Played a bunch of his old stuff and showed he hasn’t lost any skills.
Hard to believe if you weren’t there but while this brave man who has twice beaten cancer was speaking on stage about buying wrist bands for two bucks at the merchandise tent to support the fight against cancer, some idiots in the front rows were blowing their cigarette smoke toward the stage. Jeff finally at first politely ask them to quit, then a little later not so politely. You would think after being singled out they would take the hint but instead, when the band returned for an encore a few minutes later I looked across the crowd as I spotted smoke again. There was a taller individual deliberately taking big drags on his cigarette and then blowing the smoke toward the stage. I can only say it is very lucky for them they were some distance away across a large crowd. They would have lost their smoke………..As a result of the lack of consideration shown by these people you could see Jeff lose "the fun" he had at the beginning of the show, and he just wanted to get away from the _____s who had ruined it for him. Too bad, as when he started the night he was there to have fun. It all just went away.Some people just don’t have a clue.
Back to pottery, we worked for awhile in the studio today, Cindy on tea cups and rice bowls, I pugged clay and worked on some prototypes of hand built bowls for the Empty Bowls breakfast which is scheduled to happen next Monday, August 1.
We were all set to stand in line today for a chance to be extras in the new Brad Pitt Movie, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". It is scheduled to shoot here in Edmonton and the Calgary region sometime in August and September. However we went by at 10 oclock this morning and the lineup went around the Ramada Inn one and a half times!We left , worked until three and went back to check. Still a line 3/4 of the way around…we thought we might try it anyway but just then the representatives of the production company brought out forms to send in by mail . They were cutting the line off where they figured they would get to by 9 pm. Heard one person say something like 20000 people showed up. Not sure if that was correct but prefer mail to standing in line for six or more hours, only to have the door shut in our faces.
Tomorrow get down to throwing the show in earnest. Cindy will start with the big stuff and work her way down. I’ll work on slabs and continue on the cleanup in preparation for "Empty Bowls". Now all we need is some nice warm dry days so everything dries correctly. Fingers Crossed!
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