As a ceramic artist, working with clay has taught me a lot about life and living. Clay has nature, and as a beginning artist, I sought to understand and control so that I might create the pottery and sculpture I wanted. I've noticed some of the same forces that shape a form on the potters wheel are some of the same forces that shape one's life. In order to make a shape on the potters wheel, the soft clay must be aligned and centered to get the wobbles out. Unless it it centered, it will waver, wobble an probably collapse. We spend a lifetime getting the "wobbles" out of out lives, getting the, "on center." Unless it is disciplined and governed by a hierarchy of values, priorities and skills, life has no focus, no design.