I am very lucky

I have an acupuncturist, Pierce Hennessy, who loves me very much and constantly has new ideas about holistic health and whenever I visit him I come away walking on air. His latest thing this week is touching my head gently with his fingers and I thought I was in heaven. Then on Sunday I went to my masseur Sean Blake for the first time in months and came away the most enlivened and enriched for a long time. I am so lucky to know these people who do things to me and love me and enrich my life. And I am even luckier than that… So many people are emailing and speaking to me telling me how much they are enjoying my new book Warrior Spirit which I put together with my wife. While I am really excited and happy about the quality and content of the book it never occurred to me that it would touch other people in the way that it does. I suppose in life one of the things that really turns us on is feeling nurtured by other people. For me firstly it was my mother, then girlfriends, and now it seems like almost everybody.

I am a very lucky man.

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The story of Shanagarry Pottery and Stephen’s own adventure, Stephen Pearce: Warrior Spirit, is now available with free shipping to Ireland, the UK and the US.

272 pages, over 200 colour photographs by the renowned photographer Kevin Dunne, 24x30cm (coffee table format) and almost 2kg!

There is still time to order your copy here for Christmas.

Red Hot Passion

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

Free Shipping on internet orders to Ireland & the UK

Our online store seems to be really taking off now and we are really grateful to all of you out there who have taken the leap of faith and ordered pieces on the website.

We are delighted to be offering free shipping on all online orders to Ireland and the UK – with no minimum purchase – until December 21st.  We announced this in our latest newsletter a week or so ago and the response has been tremendous. (You can sign up to receive the newsletter by email on the homepage of our website.)

We work very hard all year round to ensure that our customers get the best deals possible on shipping rates (and are expecting to have news for friends abroad early in the New Year to make our ranges even more accessible) but we see this as a little thank you from all of us at the Pottery for your continuing support!

 

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Talking to my arm…

I was in the shower this morning and I found myself talking to my arm. For the last 6 months I have had a frozen right arm which has been quite painful and impossible to use for making pottery. Slowly, with continual exercise it is getting better. This morning in the shower I noticed that it was even better so I said “Thank you dear arm for being more use to me today” and I felt a deep sense of appreciation.

Then I thought of the integrated processes that our bodies are and I realised that my arm is not separate from my body but one and the same thing, even though the pain appears in a particular place.

Then I thought that I am part of the universe… and the game goes on and on.

I find gratitude to be a very powerful mantra.