Seven Yellow Circles on a Plain Plate Saved My Family Home

on the cardboard edge.

I looked at the white space between the yellow circles.

In the center of the plate, where the glaze was oldest, there was a tiny, hair-like crack shaped like a three-way junction. It was a minor defect in the clay, a small flaw under the glaze that I had seen every morning for thirty years.

It was the plate Harold continue reading …