Brainwave

This is the recent Japanese Sendai Earthquake. It is tragic and horrible in every possible way and I have no intention of being flippant about it. This is a serious entry. I have had an idea.

I need something to do with me pieces after I've made them. I had already decided to sell them on Etsy (if anybody would buy them) but now I have a better idea. I've been reading a great deal about artists selling their work and donating the proceeds to Japan. I don't know if I can call myself an artist, but I do know that the earliest pit-fired pottery comes from Japan and China, and it seems fitting to me to take any proceeds from the sale of my work and forward them to helping the Japanese people rebuild their infrastructure and culture. 

It's not much, but it's something, and perhaps it will convince more people to buy my work, thereby taking it off my hands which needs to happen anyway, as I don't want to saddle my parents with a house full of strange vessels when I head to college, and it will also give me a new and better goal, an incentive to stay on schedule with my project, if you will.

I feel sort of odd posting this on here because it sounds somewhat pompous to say the above to a wide audience, like "Look at me and how righteous and good I am", but in another way this is just a journal, written by me and for me, and I've had an idea which I think is a good one, and one which I believe should be recorded.