Thoughts on Being, Synchronicity & Inner Wisdom

Copper. I decided initially that I wanted Japanese teapots to adorn the top of my kitchen cupboards as a display...that I would collect over time. I was lea to the tetsubin by whatever forces work for that. They are beautiful. The first one I purchased was a deep green with dragonfly motif (pictured above). It's gorgeous. But I wanted it at eye level where I could appreciate it.

In searching for my first tetsubin, I came upon an Asian birdhouse which became my first over-the-cupboard display item. It has copper and other metals in it. Next I found a Tuscan decor copper cookie jar. Okay, that would go in one corner, the birdhouse was already caddy-corner, and a copper color tetsubin would go above the single cupboard over the breakfast bar. I did find my copper tetsubin which arrived just two days ago.

Yesterday Brian, the chef, decided he would like a copper beating bowl which could also be used as display when not in use. Off we went to Williams-Sonoma. Of course they have the most beautiful and expensive copper ever. While Brian drooled over the copper and looked at the catalog, I wandered off. I found a small jar of apricot preserves and I had just run out at home. I put it back down to go over to the actual jams and preserves section. (The jar I'd found was by itself, likely on a sale item table.) Not finding anything more appealing, I returned to buy the lonely apricot preserves.

About midnight, Brian offered to make me a toasted bagel with my new preserves which sounded perfect. He returned with my bagel asking if I had read the label of my preserves. I had not. I had assumed it was locally made forgetting Williams-Sonoma probably would not have locally made anything. Brian explained he had read the literature in the store on how their copper wares come from an area in France. The copper is used because it makes everything taste better somehow. (Short-term memory blip.)

Then...he told me that the bottle of preserves came from a region in France where wonderful apricots were grown and the jam was made only in copper bowls. Was I picking up on Brian's thoughts?  Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm. Very interesting though.

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