Thursday, January 5, 2012

Cosmic Swirls

Galactic Spiral
via PostHumanBlues

Henry walked up to me this morning after he opened a new tube of toothpaste with the cap in his hand and said, Look at this, mom. I looked in the palm of his hand, just inside the white cap the tiniest swirl of pink and white that wound around and ended with a perfect tip. It's cool, right? he said, awed by the perfection and I, awed by the sense, the time, the mind to note it.

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11 comments:

  1. Denise Emanuel ClemenJanuary 5, 2012 at 3:51 PM

    Pretty dang amazing. The boy, that is. Well, yeah, and the toothpaste.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    Ah yes, the toothpaste nebula! Rarely seen except by boys with an eye for the rare and lovely.

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  3. AmyJanuary 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM

    Oh, perfect. (And Verna's comment, above, is so good!)

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  4. ElisabethJanuary 5, 2012 at 4:18 PM

    It's that eye for the unusual in the usual. Your son, Elizabeth, perhaps has the makings of a writer or an artist or some other creative talent that requires such observational powers.

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  5. EllenJanuary 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM

    It's the little things in life we should observe....way to go Henry.

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  6. VardaJanuary 5, 2012 at 4:46 PM

    Just lovely! (Also, what Verna said, ditto.)

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  7. Steve ReedJanuary 5, 2012 at 11:15 PM

    Yeah, I couldn't say it better than Verna already did!

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  8. Kathleen ScottJanuary 6, 2012 at 7:39 AM

    He takes after his mother.

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  9. 37paddingtonJanuary 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM

    i love this.

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  10. Ms. MoonJanuary 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM

    This is what life is. Exactly.

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  11. SECRET PEPPER PERSON:January 8, 2012 at 5:51 AM

    Smile

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