I keep working on my glass.<\/p>\n
It’s like water through the pipes. There’s a flow: I forget the chaos and forget everything else that I have to do this week. Despite all of it, I’m just focused on the feeling of the glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n Donald the elder<\/a> asks what I’m doing. “I’m just making some little\u00a0glass art pieces,” I tell him.<\/p>\n He looks at me with kind of a blank face, so I add, “They’re for decoration and jewelry. These” – I point to the raw finished pieces – “go in a kiln, you know like for pottery, and it melts the pieces together.”<\/p>\n He’s intrigued, but Darren calls and he goes on with his work. Later he stops again and looks some more. Maybe he noticed the copper foil.<\/p>\n He says, “You like doing that?”<\/p>\n “Oh yes,” I say\u00a0with a big smile, searching his face for the real meaning of the question. “I really like it.”<\/p>\n Donald keeps\u00a0listening.<\/p>\n “It’s very relaxing,” I say.<\/p>\n He nods. “Well I bet it is, at that,” he says.<\/p>\n I guess that if his son, the boss, would let him, Donald would just sit right on down with me and learn to do fused glass then and there.<\/p>\n My Dad was like that.<\/p>\n When he retired from plumbing, he took up making stained glass lamps.<\/p>\n There’s a lot of untapped creativity out there. We need to find some kind of valve for that.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 1996. That’s the year Donald turned 65 and should have taken up stained glass.<\/p>\n My art table is covered with plastic sheets and a layer of gypsum dust from all the holes in the drywall. My glass art supplies are in boxes and bags in the living room. I cart my supplies downstairs, and dust and vacuum to make a small table space, and unearth a stool to sit … read more The valve is open<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[398,35,325,8,284,554,374],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-398","tag-art","tag-creativity","tag-dad","tag-glass","tag-habit","tag-plumbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"glass](\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender_1-300x248.jpg\")
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