this was a good week

including bear country, kitchen tables and the secret to happiness

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This was a somewhat overwhelming week: Alex came home from college for the summer (yay!), we celebrated Mother’s Day (yay!), and I ended up having to plan, not one, but two impromptu trips out of town. But I managed to get a few pottery days in,including finishing a little pot that charmed me. So this was a good week around here.

This was also a good week around the web! Here’s proof:

great substack reads:

• Expanding: What I Hope They See When They Look at This Table — I particularly loved

  Ali Edwards
  ’s words: “to be understood as an artist is to be deeply seen.” So absolutely true.

• Running late in brown bear country —

  Acacia Johnson
  is a nature photographer, and this story behind the scenes of a recent photo shoot is fantastic.

and then, there’s this goodness I found around the internet this week: