Bowl-A-Thon
No, this was not nine pins. My hip isn't quite there, yet. My fancy bowling shoes stayed home. My GRIN aprons came along, instead. Chicago Gal has been talking about her ceramics program at church ever since I met her. She invited us to join them for the Bowl-A-Thon, wherein we would be making bowls. Interfaith Community Services has a fundraiser for its Food Bank scheduled at the end of this month. For $15 you can sample local restaurants, support a worthy cause, and leave with a handmade, ceramic bowl. It's called Empty Bowls... and they need bowls... and they were willing to take us, talented or otherwise, to make them alongside ceramicists and parishioners and random teens. The scene was a typical, large, institutional gymnasium. The atmosphere was all about the love. You start with a tortilla of clay. Yes, a tortilla. This is Tucson. We are 65 miles from the Mexican border. It's a tortilla. You cut along th...