my-year-of-dirt-and-water_franz-tracy.md

title	authors	publisher	address	year	olid	course	tags	status	pages
My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan	Tracy Franz	Stone Bridge	Berkeley	2018	OL26959891M	japanese-monastic	canadian alaskan american-mahayana japan soto memoir ambulit pottery yakimono laywomen places	featured	307

On my electric pottery wheel, a lump of freshly kneaded gray clay has already been set out for me, a gift that always makes me feel more than a little incompetent.

The wife of a Soto Zen priest writes about pottery, her Japanese community, American family, memories and loneliness in this gorgeously well-written diary of her year (mostly) apart from her beloved husband during his formal monastic training in Japan.