This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Hey, y'all.

Welcome to episode number 1,1404T of the Potter's cast. We've got a really cool show coming on today this one is a bit

dear to my heart because it is near to my life tim clark is called the half-blind potter and he lost vision in one of his eyes.

And so now he is still making, still doing his gig and it's pretty exciting.

But the point is that he has had to have quite the journey to go through to be

able to do what he does. And, um, yeah. And so because as you may or may not know, if you've

been listening to the podcast for a long time, you know that I, I had an eye injury. What would

that be like a little, coming up on two years ago?

Coming up on two years ago.

And my eye had been hit with a wakeboard, you know, like a little surfboard.

But the difference is that you're surfing behind a boat instead of surfing in the ocean.

So that damaged my eye.

Pretty much exploded my my globe as they say.

Took the iris out, like lost all the iris so I lost the color of my eye, took the retina out of the back of my eye, and anyhow, after surgeries, a life flight

from Hood River, Oregon to Portland, Oregon, and so on and so forth, they were able to save my

eye, but not my vision. And then after a year and a half of living in pain and not really be able to function to full capacity,

I was kind of at that point of where I didn't know how to keep making it,

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