Breaking glasses

Hello,

Yesterday two glasses tapped together in the dishwater and one got a creak in it. This was the last glass still intact from our pre Chariton life. The glass was probably more than twenty years old. Eleven glasses have broken since we have been here.

Last year I bought a set of short glasses at a garage sale for little money. At the church garage sale people who knew the breaking glass story set aside seven more glasses for us, two nice looking short ones and five with logos from cola types on them. A garage sale day later four crystal glasses were added to the collection. Were they too expensive at $1.25 a piece? The box said they were from France. My sister pronounced them very attractive and nice so not too expensive. They should be harder to break.

Last night as he opened the microwave, Leroy’s elbow sailed back hitting the Pepsi glass sitting on the counter. It fell with a crash, broke into a hundred pieces, and water flowed at will. Is it a good idea for us to use glass tumblers? Should we buy plastic and declare us unsafe? How did we manage in our previous life? Are we now moving into the era of clumsy?

We must meditate and do more yoga. Surely it will help keep us balanced and centered.

I tried to take some sweets to the new neighbors, but they were not home. Should we try later or just eat up the offerings?

Paula

Stephen explained further what his organization does and its proper name. I am passing that on to you. I know that someone in Chariton had heard of them so I know they do have some presence here.

FYI, my organization is called RCAP (not RECAP) - the Rural Community Assistance Partnership. In case anybody goes and tries to search for a website on it. Not that we have a website in the first place - I'm working on that now! RCAP - its Midwest affiliate - might be at work around Chariton. I edited something recently about Iowa, so I should look to see where that is in relation to you. We're not really an advocacy organization - we don't speak on behalf of rural communities to Congress (well, we do, but that's a small part of what we do), but we're more of a direct-service organization to communities. And we're not working just with the rural poor, although most of the small communities we work with tend to be below the poverty level. It's more that they're small and don't have the large scale of customers to undertake upgrades to their water and sewage systems that causes us to work with them rather than them being poor and needing our assistance.
Stephen