Trading

It may be one of the nicest ways to spend and afternoon. Chatting with one of those 'beautiful inside and out' people and trading handicrafts...wood for clay. Lydia Nicholson is a local, talented potter who I feel grateful to know and learn from over the last few months. Pottery seems like one of those things that reflects the one who forms it. A friend mentioned the word meraki to me not long ago. It means:

to do something with soul, creativity, or love; to put something of yourself into your work.

Maybe that is why handmade things have so much more value to me then something mass produced. A blessing to own things that have heart and soul in them!