My friend Daryl told the story about a mother who used her fine china every day. His illustration included how one day that mother became a grandma and shared with her grand daughter why some of her china had chips and one plate in particular had been broken to pieces and the salvage was glued back together. It happened when the little girls mother was 7 years of age and was so excited because guests were coming to see her new baby brother, she dropped the plate! Together,mother and daughter, with painstaking effort, patch the plate like gluing a puzzle. The beauty in this scenario was that the mother never "lost her temper" but focused on the "journey of repairing it" and now with the precious memory of that journey, she held the treasured... fractured and mended plate and recited the story to her grand child. The morale of the story is that I will continue to use my 'inherited china', every day. But I still display it in the cabinet where Mom kept it locked up for years. I think she is applauding my transitioning her china...to my daily dishes.
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