Phil Rogers' Pottery and his unjaded writing

Phil Rogers is one of the most remarkable potters I've ever stumbled across. His book on creating Ash Glazes goes to the heart of the dedication to exploration some potters find like a personal Ariadne's thread opening up in the world.

Among the beautiful photos are fragments of observations from people whose lives are earth, fire and glaze, as well as the most lucidly explained recipes and equations showing the elements of the glaze that matter. To me it isn't just an introduction to pottery, but to wonder, and to how to write about what grabs us.

Wish psychology had a fragment of the verve.