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MY SUNDAY JOURNAL
By Dalton Roberts
IPS Feature
11-24-02
STERLING SILVER ALL AROUND
I placed a writing from Faye Field in my journal back in 1988. She told
how her mother came to spend Thanksgiving with her and as she set the
table, her mother said, "I wish you had sterling silver tableware
like your sister."
She thought a moment and said, "Mother, I do have sterling silver.
I have sterling friends."
Instead of the incident detracting from the occasion, she mused while
preparing the meal over her wonderful friends. She said:
Sterling silver is beautiful. My friends are beautiful.
Sterling silver is useful. My friends are always there to help me.
Sterling silver shines. My friends shine.
Sterling silver is a precious metal. My friends are priceless.
Sterling silver is of great value. My friends are of great worth.
I do not knock those who love fine china and sterling silver tableware
but such things are strictly utilitarian to me. My tableware comes from
many places. One day as I walked along the Tennessee Riverwalk, I saw a
beautiful green fork. I added it to my collection. Every time I use it,
I remember that peaceful walk and the joy I had watching the Blue Herons
along the riverbank. That's a sterling silver memory.
My sister gave me some beautiful plates and bowls with pictures of
birdhouses. Everyone knows I love the birds and when I use it, I think
of my sweet, thoughtful sister. She's the purest sterling silver sister
a man could ever find.
My dear friend, Bob McGee, "the cracked potter", made several
of my favorite bowls. Things taste better from those bowls because they
are a point of contact with his interesting mind and good heart. He,
too, is sterling silver.
Plastic emits poisons into our foods so when I buy something in a large
glass container, I save it for my nuts and pumpkin seeds. They don't
look fancy but plain glass is the most non-toxic container. That's a
sterling silver thought.
Giving thanks is one of the most sterling silver fields of consciousness
we ever attain in this life. This Thanksgiving I will gather my things,
like the green fork from the Tennessee Riverwalk, my bowls, by birdhouse
dishes from my sis and have a sterling silver Thanksgiving. I hope your
heart is so full of sweet memories that you have the most sterling
silver Thanksgiving of your life.
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