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Of Dinners, Drinking Glasses, and Acedia

Of Dinners, Drinking Glasses, and Acedia

Combatting apathy with beauty

Gracy Olmstead
Oct 18, 2022
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Claude Monet, Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine, c. 1862/1863

Last month, my daughters drank water out of champagne flutes at dinnertime. They toasted each other, and drank dainty sips as if they were queens. It was a little thing. The champagne flutes (made out of cheap, sturdy glass) generally get dusty in the back of our cabinet, neglect…

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