Beauty + Utility 

It's a fork. It's just a fork. I pick it up. I admire its lightness, craftsmanship, elegant design, and its own story as one of my family heirlooms. And it fills my heart with gladness. Truly, to have personal history, beauty and practicality blended together in this pleasing form, and to hold it in my hand with its simple sensual grace is a wonder. It brings a graciousness to the most ordinary meal.

When we surround ourselves with things that are both beautiful and useful, it brings a lightness and a joy to our everyday experience. Having things that are not pleasing in our environments takes energy away from the positive flow of our days; energetically dragging us down. The things we use to organize our belongings, the utensils we use to cook with, if they are pleasing in their form and have a utilitarian function, provide a double service of usefulness