Comment: Pottery

The wife and I have travelled all over, my collection actually pre-dates our marriage, but we make a point of getting a piece or two where ever we go.

I just sort of backed into this because I found something that I was drawn to.

I know where I got most of my pieces however I should have been / should be more diligent in keeping track and writing down the date and location where I acquired them all. There's a good memories that go with each piece. Right now I'm in Saudi Arabia...and will surely track down a piece or two.

For example I was in Bharain several weeks ago...stopped in a pottery place that we'd seen signs for along the road, in a place where we really shouldn't have been given the religious / political strife in the country. The pottery was of questionable quality, most of it unfinished, and nothing I really liked or was unique in any way. Pottery Barn rejects. It was sad because in almost every place I visit there is at least one piece that catches my fancy and says "Take me home, I'm like you." You could tell this place had suffered the effects of the civil tension...the heart had done out of the place; whoever the real artist was, he had taken his soul elsewhere. I'll go back...just to get a humble piece that tells that tale.