Pear in Susie’s bowl.

This bowl gives me daily joy, and I especially love to see it holding pears. One of my dearest friends as a teenager, after decades apart, Susie and I reconnected just before the pandemic hit. She’d been trying to find me since the horrible losses of five years ago, and I couldn’t manage a visit till last year. So glad I didn’t wait longer!

Then last summer a cabinet collapsed, all my dishes came crashing down, and I had to replace everything. What a great opportunity to buy something Susie had made! And generous being that she is, more of the dishes were replaced with some of her glorious work.