Kickball and Ceramics

In the past few weeks, there have been a lot of things have happed that have caused me to tell myself, I should blog about that, but I've realized that I'm never going to have time to put everything down in this blog that is important to me. There are a couple of things that I cannot pass up the opportunity to discuss: ceramic sculpture and kickball.

One of the things I did was go to my friend Leslie's ceramic sculpture (not pottery) show. I'd never really seen a lot of ceramic sculpture in my life and it has some very unique properties. Unlike a stone sculpture, ceramic sculpture can be glazed many bright and interesting colors. Unlike painting, which can have wonderful colors, it is three dimentional as you can walk completely around a piece to experience it. It took the best of both mediums and put it all into one. Some of the pieces are quite huge and incredibly intricate. I was quite impressed. Plus there was beer at the reception.

One of the other key experiences in my life the last month has been the triumphant kickball season in which we went undefeated in the regular season only to fall in the championship game. Our team was a lot of fun (and also quite talented) but we came up a run short in the final game. In spite of how much I've learned to enjoy the game of basketball, it is a lot of fun to play some sports that are by nature designed to be very relaxed and enjoyable. This is not to say that playoff kickball is not intense (there were plenty of unkind things directed at the umpire), but its nice to play a sport and watch the center fielder make a one handed catch and not spill his beer. Plus you get a T-shirt.