I'm a very special teapot
Here's an example of what I can do
Laura Calder crossed my radar, again speaking of the very things I myself tout. She does it often and it makes me somewhat jealous. The latest was in this month's letter to followers, promoting the book, The Beauty of Everyday Things, by Soetsu Yanagi.
Jesting aside, that my everyday world is filled with beautiful objects is truly important to me and I do talk about it a lot. Art imitates life, life imitates art.
The appeal of objects I reach for regularly, may be defined because they are beautiful by their nature or structure, their personal history tells a story, or because people with beautiful hearts gifted them to me. Being surrounded by lovely things is my constant reminder of the many aspects of my very beautiful life.
It did not get by me that Calder also mentions how this book caught her eye in a bookstore, much like I recently talked about with the Maiko book; her version being attributed to serendipity, mine credited to The Universe. The theory by any name, will place what you need right smack in front of you. Often!
My final chuckle came from the photo on the cover of the Yanagi's book. It is a teapot. A Japanese teapot I assume, and very pretty in a timeless way. So is mine.
My little pot never boils water but instead houses a few cards of recipe ingredients quantities that I reach for the most. It also holds scraps of paper; notes of words which I adore and wish to never lose. Words, to me, are as beautiful and to be as treasured as the objects which may contain them. I look forward to reading this book and perhaps collecting more.
We are so very similar, Laura Calder and I, though she speaks on a large platform and to many people while I occasionally reach into the teapot to read lines to special friends over glasses of shared wine. Art imitates life, life imitates art.
I'm a Little Teapot
George Harold Sanders/Clarence Z. Kelley, 1939
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