Letters to you

Recently several breakable objects have appeared to spontaneously leap out of our hands or off their shelves and make a break for freedom, only to plummet to their untimely ends upon impact with the inevitable Surface. The latest of these was the lid to a glass pan, which ordinarily is tough enough to withstand a large impact. It leaped out of the cabinet as Rialian was getting a pan, and it hit the edge of the counter at just the right angle to shatter into more tiny pieces than one would think possible for a chunky glass lid. This happened while I was doing something on the opposite side of the kitchen with my back turned (fortunately). The crash sounded like an entire cabinet full of crystal glasses expiring - it was impressive. Rialian swept it up while I stood rooted to the spot (no shoes on, so couldn't help). Of possible importance is the fact that the pan was going to be used to make hot chocolate. A few weeks before this, we made some hot chocolate. Rialian's favorite hot chocolate mug was a large handmade one (Dancing Pig Pottery) with a spiral design. This design has been discontinued. He picked up the mug full of hot chocolate to drink it, and the cup leaped out of his hand. There was hot chocolate everywhere (I think I just found the last of it this weekend, actually). I tried to glue the cup back together but was not successful. These were just the two most dramatic cases (involving hot chocoloate), but they're not the only ones...

Recently I've been noticing tiny chips in many favorite ceramic items. A pretty ceramic faerie that someone gave me broke before I got her home. A wonderful soup dish we got at a ceramic shop has a chip at the rim. Another soup dish broke in transit. A wine glass shattered during a weekend when we had friends over. And then there was the case of the heavy-duty glass pan that broke when a spice jar leaped out of a cabinet (I was several yards away) and fell on the pan at just the right angle to shatter it. The spice jar was unharmed (never mind that the pan's glass was twice as strong as the spice jar's). This all happened in the last several months.

So... Maybe an altar to the glass fairies would make this better? I have plenty of broken ceramic and glass to put on it. Maybe a windchime or two to simulate tinkling glass, in case the sound is what they're after...