A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
The aspiring artists have just completed a second summer camp experience with Artworks, this time learning about pottery. Several of their creations are on the table in front of them, but they have to dry out for awhile before they can be fired in the kiln (they will explode if they are still moist, the girls informed me. I knew nothing about this so have included a lesson on the chemistry of clay and ceramics in today's natural cycle lesson). It's a messy medium, which is why sending them to a professional art studio was a better option for them to learn this particular art form. As a writer, I do love analogies between clay and the human heart or soul, with God as the divine potter, and keep coming across them this summer, such as this line:
“But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8)
Liturgical: Readings for the Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
"The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit. But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold."
Bishop Barron's reflections today.
Human: 432 AD – Pope Celestine I died; 1945-- US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during World War II in the Declaration of Potsdam; 1953-- Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba
Birthday of Carl Jung (1875), Aldous Huxley (1894), Liz Truss (1975)
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: How Are Ceramics Used in Chemistry?
Italian: Attraversare (to cross / go through)
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