Be Good to Your Spark - by Heather Havrilesky - Ask Polly
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When it comes to cultivating passion, only *you* can choose your best path forward.
Microcosm and Macrocosm (1937) by Helen Lundeberg My house is filled with tiny ashtrays. There are four ashtrays on the mantel and fifteen on the top of my bookshelf and three on my dresser, purple and dark blue and speckled white and brown. No one here smokes. So I put necklaces in them, or hair ties, or guitar picks. I need to give them a job so they don’t feel like pointless clutter. I took my first pottery class in March. I felt like an expert potter by the end of the class and it all went downhill from there: vases turned into ashtrays, bowls became ashtrays, even plates transformed…
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