"clay doesn't ask you to be
anything other than present."
you pick it up. it's cool at first. then it warms to your hands. you press a thumb in and it holds the shape. you roll it between your palms and something in your chest unclenches.
nobody's watching. there's no right answer. there's just you, and this soft thing, becoming something small and wonderful.
that's what it means to clayslay. that's who a clayslayer is. someone who chose to make something instead of spiral. and the clayslayee, that little creature you finished, carries that moment forever.