Bird Uncaged

For some reason I began to be drawn to old china. I didn't know why, I just was. I already owned a beautiful set that I loved that I had picked out in my former life, and it only found its way out of the cabinets once or twice a year for holidays. Yet here I was admiring vintage china and their delicate patterns. I found myself falling in love with a pattern from Noritake, "Savannah". I researched and finally found a seller nearby who was selling the complete set plus a few extra pieces. I jumped on it. And it came to me that my hope was that this would be a set we used regularly.  When I met with the seller, she told me that it was approximately 50 years old (from the 70s), and that to her knowledge, it had never been used. Wow. In a way that broke my heart, but also made me happy. We would use it, on a plain day, with a regular meal. And we did. I washed them all and we had our very ordinary (yet extraordinary) dinner the very next night on this vintage set that had nev...