Settings

Our mother brought us up with a sense of preparation, for whatever it was we were going to be doing. A setting of the stage, perhaps it was. If there was going to be a meal, it would look well as well as taste well. Even the smallest of meals or snacks would not just be thrown on the table willy-nilly. I don't know how she did this, but it is something I have noticed at each of my sibling's tables. It is - civilized.

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I also know this about friend Rosie's table - there is a graciousness, an ambiance about her settings. And so we both noticed as we approached yesterday's scone fest that there wasn't a tablecloth... and there was no elbow room at the minuscule table. But! we forgave this lack of ambiance the moment we took our first bite. The setting became secondary, although just a bit too chummy!

But the idea of Settings lingers. The tablecloth, the porcelain, the spaciousness, the graciousness. All of this is a pursuit not to be scorned. Civilization itself will benefit.

See you along the way!
the SconeLady

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