Today is the first day of a new year. I have been thinking long and hard about what today’s picture should be. I had a long list of ideas that included things like hope, new beginnings, and it ought to be better than last year.
The problem I ran into was how to portray any of those ideas. If I hadn’t constrained myself at the beginning of this project, I think I could have gone out and found something that could have represented any of these ideas adequately. But I didn’t have that luxury and had to figure out something to do with the materials that I have for this project.
After a while I thought that since this is a new year, there are infinite possibilities. This year could be anything that you want to make of it. And a lump of clay seemed to be just the right thing. So I grabbed this lump of clay and was going to just roll it into a sphere so it could be the sun or a ball or some other spherical object. That seemed too easy and not really interesting. Since this project is A Quarter for Cancer and I’m on this new beginning type theme, I pressed a quarter into the clay. It is kind of hard to see George Washington, but I assure you he is there. Then I took a few other objects and pressed them against the clay. You may recognize some or you may not.
The point of all this is that just like a lump of clay, this year or I guess your whole future if you want to go that far, is like this lump of clay. Until you do something to mold or shape it it is just a blank blob of earth. It could be anything you can imagine if you just do a little shaping.
Hopefully, we can all make something wonderful with the lump of clay we have. Good luck.