April 25, 2015
(This is part
of a 365 project during my 70th year where I write and illustrate a blog on
each day's gift.)
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| Oregon blue ice agate pendant by Janol and Matt looks like a miniature painting by nature. |
All of today was a gift as I showed Hiro, our
Japanese visitor, around my area. We started at the Robot Fest at the National Electronics
Museum in Linthicum where 3D printers demonstrated the new wave of technology
and robots roamed about. Several exhibits demonstrated the integration of
senses. Students from MICA mixed the sense of touch and sight in clothing
design and Michelle Vargas, a senior, mingled movement of a mask she created with
her own body’s motion. With her technology wizardry, she caused her movement
several feet away to result in facial changes in the mask. Magic! Another
exhibit married sound and sight with music and light colors and patterns based
on actual musical scale notes in the music.
Next, we dined at the Papermoon Diner where we
mixed taste and sight, surrounded by old toys and visionary art everywhere,
including those nailed to the ceiling. Then we moved on to the Hopkins Fair
where we took in sights, sounds and smells. Geological beauty offered by Janol
and Matt drew me to their booth where I found one-of-a-kind necklace and earrings made from
Oregon blue ice agate. Matt looks for small areas in larger
pieces and he showed me the larger piece this particular beauty came from. His artistic
eye led him to cut a perfect section that I wound up purchasing. He said he had to sever
the emotional umbilical cord from this piece, one of his two favorites. Hiro
and I returned to the car through the Baltimore Museum of Art’s sculpture
garden and ended up at Fort Smallwood Park in Anne Arundel County before going
home. What a good day!
Tonight my senses merge as I look again at the
beautiful Oregon blue ice agate and my fingers slide back and forth over its
smooth surface.
My
gift today is a piece of Oregon blue ice agate.
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