Letter from the Editor: On Change

Change. As a guild community, we’re experiencing a lot of big changes in a short
period of time. There’s the transition from analogue to digital, with this newsletter
going fully online in only two more issues. There’s the redesign of bcpotters.com.
There are the necessary changes at the gallery, made to adapt to the contingency
of raised rent. Then there’s me, and the visual and editorial change I bring to this
newsletter. Add these up, and suddenly there 1s a lot to digest all at once!

How do you cope with change? Do you embrace it as hopeful and refreshing?
Do you count yourself proudly into the Luddite tradition, resisting
changes brought on by technology? Or do you walk somewhere in
between and hope that, on balance, the results of these changes weigh

in positively? Are you excited to see where we will find ourselves as a “if the 20th century

diverse ceramics community, as we adjust to these changes? Or are you

reading this, seething with frustration ? was the century

Wherever you place yourself, whatever your reaction to change,
there are two things I know for certain: first, that you are the only of bloodshed, let

person who can control how you deal with it, and second, that the only
way your community can grow with change—and have the sensitivity

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to help every member grow along with 1t—1s to discuss 1t openly. be th e century of

At his Sept. 9 talk at GM Place, the XIV Dalai Lama stressed the

importance of dialogue 1n creating peace; whether that peace 1s within d i alogue. ”

a family, in our community of potters or in the greater context of the

world, it begins when we start to both talk and listen to one another =XiV Dalai Llama

with sincerity.

In this spirit, and in the context of our small and wonderfully diverse
BC ceramics community, I invite each of you to begin the dialogue.
Write your letters to the editor, your responses to change, your open letters to your
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community to: editor@bcpotters.com. I welcome your unique perspective.

Amber Alyne Kennedy, editor

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