Why is the first time for any experience, good or bad, always remembered vividly when brought to mind.
Easily, this one popped into my head with electrifying response from just a word.
I remember this one so well, joyfully, of a foot -long, fat, cardboard tube.
It was placed into my hands with instructions to look into the tiny hole and twist.
I was a youngster of under 10 years of age holding an amazing, new object setting my imagination awhirl.
The kaliedoscope was a world of color, shapes, and marvel, changing as I twirled with such ease, just like my life has done since those early years.
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True. It was something else looking into one of those as a kid for the first time. ‘Marvel’ is a perfect word you used.
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Thanks. I enjoy just thinking about that time.
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Excellent–I love this…as much as I love my 2 kaleidoscopes!
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Thanks. I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
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You’re most welcome.
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Agreed! As soon as I saw the word that vivid memory sliced its way through, too. 🙂
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hahaha.. a cool memory.
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and I will add, in appreciation, your description of a “…fat, cardboard tube. is all it took to have my own experience flash though my mind.
fun Six!
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glad you enjoyed the happy memory..
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This cue did bring back memories. I just couldn’t make them work. I”m in too dark a place these days.
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Praying you continue forward to all light and bright again. Can’t lose your writings that i look forward to.
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Wonderful, Arlene. Beautifully written homage to a “toy” so many of us were blessed to have as a child. It was, for sure, the coolest thing 🙂
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Thanks. I now have a wood kaliedscope with no color. it ‘mixes’ whatever it is pointed to.
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I love how you captured the same joy of the kaleidoscope that I remember as a child. Good job!
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Thanks.
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I remember a tube much like that as a child. Hold it to the light and the colors sparkled when they changed. I like how you compared that twirling to one’s life.
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and it’s just so true when we take time to look at life passed. thanks Frank.
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Kaleidoscopes were a great toy for sure. Your last sentence is perfect.
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thank you.
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While i don’t remember the very first time i looked in one, i do remember a sense of wonder whenever i did look through one. Excellent story.
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Thanks Mimi.
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A lovely six, catapulting us back to our youth. Are we all of a certain age on here? 🤣
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I doubt it about the age, just that kaliedscopes have been around for a long time.
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That was my first flash, too… on a cardboard tube, the slow twist, and the whirlwind of bright geometry! Lovely memory.
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a lovely memory.
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Kaleidoscopes sure do open up new discoveries.
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