Girl in Dorm Room!
On our way home from Colorado and through Kentucky, my husband Joe and I stopped at Berea College to visit Rowan, a young family friend and member of the Floyd community. Not only was it against the rules to have females in the dorm, it was the wrong time of day for visitors of any kind. Rowan’s roommate came in the dorm room and asked, jokingly, if we were some kind of older foreign exchange students.
I was standing on a chair in front of Rowan’s computer holding a book by Lao Tzu that I had just grabbed off a high shelf. “What’s all this standing on chairs?” he asked, as I proceeded to read a passage from the book. And then he got more serious or curious and asked if we were Rowan’s parents.
“The next best thing,” Joe said, explaining how Rowan spent a lot of time at our house and that, growing up in a community, he has many surrogate parents.
That same day, we made our way to North Carolina to surprise my Asheville potter son who loves the Red Sox at an art opening in which his pottery was being featured. We woke up the next morning in front of his warehouse studio/home (see yesterday’s photo) 31/2 hours from home.
What do you think of Rowan’s leopard print sheets? And my son Josh’s pottery? Check it out here and here.
Post Note: You can listen to my essay, which aired on WVTF public radio on October 7, about living in Floyd, by going to http://www.wvtf.org/news.htm
Comments
Happy Sunday!
Michele sent me.
Posted by: Courtney | October 9, 2005 12:05 PM
Foreign exchange student? Bahh!! I would have said that you are a new co-ed! lol
Nice leopard sheets and AWESOME pottery!
Posted by: Chana | October 9, 2005 12:15 PM
Nice sheets and wonderful pottery. The musician father of my Asheville niece is from Berea. Ever-smaller circles.
Posted by: terrilynn | October 9, 2005 12:17 PM
Gorgeous pottery, Colleen. I especially like the pot on the left in the photo of two. Just beautiful. I see an Asian influence in the others.
Love the sheets and the pin-up girl on them.
Posted by: kenju | October 9, 2005 1:16 PM
Hello, Michele sent me! Nice room! I'll have to hook up some speakers and listen to your news report. I can't wait!
Posted by: Dave Diamond | October 9, 2005 3:59 PM
Hello,
Michele sent me :)
Posted by: Andrea | October 9, 2005 6:43 PM
I loved your son's pottery, he's very talented!
Here via Michele's, have a great evening! :)
Posted by: YellowRose | October 9, 2005 6:43 PM
Hi! Michelle sent me. I loved the pottery - gorgeous
Posted by: T | October 9, 2005 11:50 PM
The pottery is gorgeous. The sheets, well.....they're fun.
Posted by: vashti | October 10, 2005 12:10 AM
I tried listening to your essay and an error message keeps popping up. Hmmmm....I really want to hear it!
Posted by: vashti | October 10, 2005 12:13 AM
Can you get the WVTF page? I had windows media player and couldn't hear it myself until my husband downloaded something else...media player classic. I wonder if others are having trouble hearing it? Wish I could be of more help. I'm not very technologically savvy.
Posted by: colleen | October 10, 2005 12:23 AM
Gorgeous pottery, and cool sheets. I agree with kenju about the pin-up girl. :)
Posted by: Elissa Malcohn | October 10, 2005 1:17 AM
download realplayer to hear the essay cuz its coded as a .ram file.
Posted by: joeyk | October 10, 2005 9:12 AM
How long has your son be studying pottery? Was he drawn to this as a child?
Posted by: Tabor | October 10, 2005 6:39 PM
How long has your son been studying pottery? Was he drawn to this as a child?
Posted by: Tabor | October 10, 2005 6:40 PM
My son Josh came in with a mission, and since he was a toddler he's been experimenting with many mediums. He's an all around artist who is focusing on pottery. It was good that I was a daycare teacher for 6 years before having my own kids because I knew what to expose him to. And the pottery I've linked to is some of his older work. A webpage is in the works with some of his newer stuff.
Posted by: colleen | October 10, 2005 8:30 PM