The Top Nine images that I've posted on Instagram in 2024 illustrate the important things in my life very nicely. Clockwise from top left: part of a video of me carving stoneware, front shelves of a Shadbolt soda firing, an early salt-glazed jugbird, Susan Johnston of Semiahmoo potters with a bird planter, visitors at my SHUFFLE studio in June, a favourite lidded soda pot, a…