Throwing Pots

I have always wanted to learn how to throw pottery on a wheel. It's an ancient and earthy art form that suits my penchant for centered action and repetition. I've had the opportunity to sit at a wheel with a hunk of clay and found it to be completely entrancing.

Turn, turn my wheel!

Turn round and round

Without a pause, without a sound:

so spins the flying world away.

This clay, well mixed with marl and sand,

Follows the motion of my hand;

Far some must follow,

And some command;

Though all are made of clay.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow