More than 25 years ago, in 1977, I established Laughing Brook Pottery on a backroad in Vermont. Just below the pottery runs a small brook which inspired the name. I love the way it ripples along, making wavelets in the dappled sun and shade of the ravine. I now work mainly in porcelain for the beauty of the way it fuses with the glaze giving great depth, and at the same time clarity of pattern. Much of my work uses a spiral pattern familiar to many as the nautilus shell. I find in it, also, the tightly coiled fern sprout or fiddlehead and the spiral form of galaxies. I hope you can sense the play of light on water, the rippling of a brook or the yearning for sun in the heart of winter. Pottery takes earth, humble or refined, and unites it with fire to give us a metaphor for the creation of the universe and ourselves. As you use your pottery, may your heart be warmed, your spirit eased, and your imagination led to wander.