May all your cups be filled to the Darksheare acceptable level!
Nice post HTB.
TC, re 582...Hubby LHHO. Progressive lenses!
Darks, I think the first glass was probably sand that had been hit by lighting. Once they figured out how to make it, at will, they could then use it in the walls to see the raiders before their doors were knocked in, and their women and children killed.
It’s possible.
Bob,
I haven’t read Harry Potter.
If I could have any life?
Hmmm.
Anyway, that’s not magic. It’s science. And art. And beauty.
Hi Face, Sion, DC, Cold One, HKMk23.
Read Harry Potter...one book at a time, from the first to the seventh. It’s a delightful escape into a world that is like ours but much more magical.
The next books I would recommend are “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” (Five books.) (Mythology come to life!)
We all need to take a breather from whatever life has to dish out.
JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (and the Hobbit) (4)
JK Rowling: Harry Potter (7)
Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and The Olympians (5)
CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (7)
There are many other books, of course, but not many with such realistic backgrounds.
You will find science, art and beauty in all of them. The nice thing about them is that you can RELATE!!!
Most people don't get it.
Science, and art, and beauty are magic! Magic isn't what the thing is, it's how you see it.
Soap bubbles are magic. Rubber bands are magic. Feathers are magic.
Take feathers just as an example: Imagine a world without feathers. You can define them anyway you like, as modified scales and such, but just picture a world without them.
Lizards and snakes of course. Insects flying, maybe even bats. But no birds. A Rachel Carson world.
Now invent feathers. Propagate them virally, so that they infect the whole animal kingdom. Now the birds return, and flocks of them fill the skies.
The world is back the way it was before.
But wait! Something's wrong!
Did you forget to let the birds sing?