Wise Words

I stopped to read this plaque in the entrance to the pottery studio. They quote the words of Tommy Douglas, one of Canada's well know politicians, a man of my parents' generation.

It reads: "The measure of a nation's greatness does not lie in the conquest, or its Gross National Product, or the size of its gold reserves or the height of its skyscrapers. The real measure of a nation is the quality of its national life, what it does for the least fortunate of its citizens and the opportunities it provides for its youth to live useful and meaningful lives."

It hangs over a bin where potters can put unwanted mugs they have made, to donate them to a local shelter for the homeless. And some of the potters who come here are children and youth.