Look! Mom's Dishes! ...Connections To Our Past

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMUE-0HH6bnmyTYa4yT1ohVA_ZSpbWiYOuTHOJZtMeDyuwpI7XBa4v5N1xec6vAUKCf4-QvRoHdvT92erpS9vApU3-nro5iIF7pF9Dq9SqMMNb_GWFay7g6PyKAqLkSFUEDaWTc1v6DpOW/s1600/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMUE-0HH6bnmyTYa4yT1ohVA_ZSpbWiYOuTHOJZtMeDyuwpI7XBa4v5N1xec6vAUKCf4-QvRoHdvT92erpS9vApU3-nro5iIF7pF9Dq9SqMMNb_GWFay7g6PyKAqLkSFUEDaWTc1v6DpOW/s640/001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes I think I have the best job in the world, getting to work with </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beautiful </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">china pieces day in and day out...sometimes it actually feels more </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like a privilege </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">than an actual profession. After all, each of these plates and </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cups and saucers </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and other dinnerware pieces all have history behind them. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They come </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">many different countries, from all around the world, and </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">their </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beautiful </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">patterns and colors give them a unique appeal </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that brings </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">them to life </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">unlike other ordinary household objects. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We remember dishes. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They're a part of our </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">family in some ways, a part of each of our </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">own personal </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">histories. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have you not once </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in your life been somewhere, maybe an antique market or </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thrift shop, and come </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">across an orphaned plate or cup that you instantly </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">recognized from somewhere</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in your own past? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At that moment of recognition, it isn't just "a plate" or "a cup," </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but mom's </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">plate, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or grandmother's cup. There is a connection. Often when that </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">connection </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">made we find ourselves flooded with memories of </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">family </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">long ago, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">or of our childhood, or of holidays and times past. If you're the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sentimental type </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like I am</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it can be a comforting experience. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been working with dishes for so long now that I know the patterns by name.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No, I don't talk to them, but in a way, they speak to me. I see them as</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">valuable, not monetarily valuable, but valuable in a way that fills your</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">soul with warmth and peace just as memories of loved ones do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This was, after all, someone's grandmother's plate. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Someone just like you. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMUE-0HH6bnmyTYa4yT1ohVA_ZSpbWiYOuTHOJZtMeDyuwpI7XBa4v5N1xec6vAUKCf4-QvRoHdvT92erpS9vApU3-nro5iIF7pF9Dq9SqMMNb_GWFay7g6PyKAqLkSFUEDaWTc1v6DpOW/s400/001.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

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