Why claytocup.org ?
Let me narrate a story regarding this....
"There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful
stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups.
This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. One day in this
beautiful shop they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, "May we see
that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful." As the lady handed it
to them, suddenly the teacup spoke."You don't understand," it said.
"I haven't always been a teacup. There was a time when I was red and I
was clay. "My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over
and I yelled out, "let me alone", but he only smiled, "Not yet."
"Then
I was placed on a spinning wheel," the teacup said, "and suddenly I was
spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy!" I
screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet”.
Then he
put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to
burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through
the opening and I could read his lips as He shook his head, "Not yet”.
Finally
the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. "There,
that's better," I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The
fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. "Stop it, stop it!" I
cried. He only nodded, "Not yet." Then suddenly he put me back
into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew
I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the
time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying, "Not
yet."
Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I
was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed
me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, "Look
at yourself." And I did. I said, "That's not me; that couldn't be me.
It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.” "I want you to remember, then," he
said, "I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you
alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on
the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I knew it
hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you
there, you would have cracked.
I know the fumes were bad when I
brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never
would have hardened; you would not have had any color in your life. And
if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for
very long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a
finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with
you."
http://claytocup.org name came that way.....