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<\/p>\nWhen I was a kid, I used to accumulate\u00a0burnt-out light bulbs in a paper bag and then take them down to the river to smash against the rocks.<\/p>\n
In my twenties, it was vodka and gin bottles.<\/p>\n
Last year, I got so mad at my computer that I hurled a glass of water against a table and it shattered in a zillion pieces. I was left to contemplate my anger as I carefully picked all those shards out of the carpet.<\/p>\n
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Then I started writing a song about it.<\/p>\n
That’s what I hope to do with all my anger and broken glass: Make something of it.<\/p>\n
I have loved the look of fused glass ever since I first laid eyes on it 30 years ago.\u00a0Today I deliberately broke glass as a creative act, for the first time – with an instructor’s help.<\/p>\n
I took the pieces home with me after the class to play with, to design what\u00a0will become a fused-glass sushi plate.<\/p>\n
I’m so sorry I didn’t learn to do this\u00a0sooner.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2014, the year of those shards in the carpet.<\/p>\n When I was a kid, I used to accumulate\u00a0burnt-out light bulbs in a paper bag and then take them down to the river to smash against the rocks. In my twenties, it was vodka and gin bottles. Last year, I got so mad at my computer that I hurled a glass of water against a … read more Day 86: Broken glass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[36,302,35,284,223,301],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-36","tag-anger","tag-art","tag-glass","tag-music","tag-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_5142\"](\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5142.jpg\")
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