I don't know why you say goodbye. I say hello!

Just over five short months have passed and here we are again, bidding fond farewell to a friend and welcoming change. Who was to know that the send off we gave Jenna in May would need a retraction by October? That's right! Our smiling dreamer Jenna has come back to us. We are overjoyed to welcome her back into the Umbra fold.

But there is bittersweetness in this welcoming, for in regaining Jenna, we are releasing another loved one to broaden her creative horizons.
Trisha, Trishie, Trish. Whatever we call her, our lovable, poetic potter always answers with enthusiasm and utmost sincerity. Sometimes she repays our questions with quandaries of her own:

"Hey, Caris...Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, Trish. Shoot."
"When was one time you felt really really loved?"

Or

"Hey. I gotta ask you something."
"Of course."
"Please tell me the top three things you like most about yourself."

It's this inquisitive grace that will carry Trish seamlessly from management here at Umbra to sweet success in opening a ceramics shop of her very own. If you chance to visit her new place off Main Street, you'll easily see what we'll be missing. Trish is our diamond in the rough, someone who is truly as cavalier about caring for others as she is for searching out the meaning of her own existence. Oh how we will miss her. But no tears! "Don't cry for me!" I can hear her say with her patented Cheshire-cat grin. Too bad Trish. We all say you're worth the drama!

Best wishes in sharing your light Trisha!