My father, myself and my son are all pacifists and refuse to go to war and shoot people. Paradoxically we are all warrior spirits.
I don’t know about you, but I am afraid, in fact terrified, about a lot of things a lot of the time. Warrior spirit is about continuing along your road despite the terror. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose.
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My coffee table biography Stephen Pearce: Warrior Spirit with over 200 colour photographs is on a boat from Italy as we speak, and we have just started selling pre-orders from our website – all of which I will sign and dedicate.
My worst Hallowe’en nightmare this year is that when you read it you won’t love me anymore. However it’s a risk worth taking, as it’s always possible you might love me more 🙂
I suspect this is the reason most people write their life story. If people go into this project thinking they will make lotsa money let me tell you, having sat at the kitchen table writing for two years, that you can safely call them a liar.
I believe most people don’t write their own biographies, and in not doing so they miss the opportunity of meeting somebody quite extraordinary. As I wrote I got to know intimately someone who I had been so busy being, that I forgot to get to know him. And it feels really strange at the age of 70 to know that I haven’t known myself all my life.
I know I know… Galway and Kilkenny are on! They have no consideration for the important work being done here in Shanagarry 🙂
Anyway, for those of you not watching the hurling there is a great day in store here in Shanagarry. If you have any old Stephen Pearce pottery that you don’t use anymore – chipped, cracked or in pieces – bring it down to us here at the Showroom on Sunday between 2 and 5pm. You’ll be allowed (yes – imagine!) to smash the old ones into pieces and invest in replacements at a 20% discount!
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Most of the great mystics from every tradition seem to stick with this simple statement and go no further. The best interpretation I can put on it is that love is a passive context in which stuff happens. A bit like a big bubble, as in a BIIIIIIIG bubble, which contains the whole universe. And this invisible quality, a bit like oxygen in the air, we breathe it in continually and if we will stop worrying for a moment and just be present with our self then this wonderful love quality is always part of us.
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Earlier today I wrote about Relationship. Now it’s the turn of Sex and later in the day I will cover Love.
I have heard it said that sex is very over-rated. It seems to me that whoever said that is missing the point. In my life sex has been the most confusing and the most exhilarating of all experiences. You know when you’re going there with someone new all of the embarrassment and uncertainty and fear, and yet when you have the courage to keep going it is possible to arrive at an amazing place.
Something that always amazes me is how many delicious and beautiful women think that they are overweight. You don’t take into account those exotic love handles that so excite us men! In French they are called ‘Poignets d’amour‘, ‘Chichitos‘ in Spanish, and my favourite is the Italian… ‘Maniglie dell’amore‘!
If you simply want to kiss it is ‘Bisou‘ in French, ‘Beso‘ in Spanish and ‘Bacci‘ in Italian.
Now that we are fully blown Europeans it is important that we should be acquainted with these important words. There are many other exciting possibilities which I will leave til next year.
If life has been kind enough to lead you to other doors that you feel the need to add to this list, please feel free – I’m a great learner. I look forward to covering Love this afternoon – it should be easier and less embarrassing.
Why do I write such things? Well I suppose it’s the thrill of going very close to the line. What line?! An unspoken line that make a lot of conversation and society really boring.
As a man whose life is driven by various passions I want to add 3 blog posts today on the subject of Love, Relationship and Sex. So roll up your sleeves and prepare to participate!
I salute and celebrate lovers everywhere. Whatever the nature of your passion and love I celebrate it with you. I spend as much time as possible with my masseur who is an incredibly passionate man in terms of the body and spirit and the well-being of everything both on this planet and over the edge. He has been giving me various crystals and fancy stones for years and I really haven’t related very well to them. But recently he gave me a huge rock and in the morning I hold it between my hands and feel a connection that I have never felt before which leads me to wonder if our human relationship to trees and rocks is perhaps as profound as our relationship with another human being. Imagine the simplicity and satisfaction and ease of having a relationship with a rock rather than another human being! Yeah I know we would miss all those delicious, soft, little bits and bumps but the mental tranquility definitely calls for exploration.
That was all an idea. The reality is that I am married to an extraordinary woman who is so kind and generous and gentle in all of my blunderings that I can only give thanks for being so lucky. In a couple of hours when I have regrouped I will take love from a different angle.
Looking forward to meeting you then.
XXXX Stephen
Every so often we do a quick search on the internet for ‘Stephen Pearce Pottery’ or other brand related terms just to see what’s going on out there. Everytime we do it we seem to unearth something different from the past.
Here are two of today’s offerings that I remember fondly…
The house was designed with the help of Stephen Pearce, a close friend of the actress’s, whose home nearby provided the inspiration for hers.
(AD, June 2007)
(Irish Independent, January 2009)
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