End of Week Three. Our kitchen is slowly beginning to look like as A and I envisioned it. We are particularly fond of this classic brass faucet that really goes well with the black granite counter top.

I am reminded of Marie Luise Kaschnitz who, in her collection of essays titled Menschen und Dinge (Humans and Things), speaks of how we might have lost the old charm of simple things we use in our everyday life, and how our children will be the richer, not poorer, if we could somehow bring back that old charm of everyday things.

Through this faucet--this salutary faucet--water will pour, and pour into our lives, giving us water to drink, and helping us prepare our daily meals.

May the heavens find us worthy of experiencing anew the charm of the simple things that make up our lives.