Finishing the Cob

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty

The Cob House

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner

Strawberry Ice Cream

“She was heavier than he expected – women always are.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner

Bottle Feeding

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
― C.S. Lewis

A Celebration

“All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.”
― Cassandra Clare

Shannon

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It’s deliberately limited. It won’t function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can’t do it absolutely. That’s because you can’t do anything absolutely by reason. That’s because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don’t think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.”
― Mark Helprin

Pottery Class

“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

Outdoor Oven

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
― Haruki Murakami

The Beginnings of A Cob Oven

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld

Shannon’s Return

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway