What is the Bountiful Bone Pot?

The Bountiful Bone Pot is

*the cauldron of magic
*deep creativity
*good ideas
*over-flowing
*licked dry
* always full
* the potential in emptiness, the void
*always simmering
*slow cooking
*always bubbling, somethings always cooking
* a place for experimentation and science
*filled with food
*where medicine comes from
*an incubator
*a place of transformation
*where stone soup is made
*where nothing becomes something and something boils down to nothing

The Bountiful Bone Pot is the name I give to my work and to the process that evolves as I do that work. The products that result are feasts, sometimes just little morsels, sometimes delicious or piquant bites that all have been baked up in my proverbial bone pot. When I embark on the creation of something new--- a class, an artistic project, a rehearsal process, the building of a ritual, writing a poem or story, the preparation to share healing--- I think to myself, "Okay, let me dip into my Bone Pot. Sometimes when I put labels on cosmetics, potions, medicines, or fashion accessories the labels will read "The Bountiful Bone Pot". When I say the words they sound like a bit of a mouthful but that seems somewhat fitting.

A friend actually came up with the term. She sent me a thank you note in response to a letter of condolence. (Yes, I have friends that I exchange actual letters with regularly. Old fashioned, we are!) In her note she referred to my words of comfort, couched in a compliment, couched in a joke, as being 'just one more from Kim Crutcher's bone pot!"


The Bountiful Bone Pot is my pet name for my creativity. I adore my gifts and and shouldn't everything that is adored have an adorable pet name? I do a lot of work in the kitchen and want everything I make to feel luscious, nourishing, life-affirming. So pull out a spoon, sometimes you'll need a knife and a fork to really get it. There now. Taste.