Einstein #2: Gift of Fantasy

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
– Albert Einstein

During my childhood, I liked Saturday morning cartoons like Mighty Mouse [“Here I come to save the day!”] and Bugs Bunny. At night, I always enjoyed Hollywood musicals likeย The King and I,ย Oklahomaย andย State Fair. There were so many fabulous songs. A favorite is fromย South Pacificโ€™sย โ€œHappy Talk,โ€ which says,

You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?ย ย Listen here.

In the United States on this coming Tuesday, some will watch a ground hog to learn how much longer winter will last. Because February 2ndย is halfway between Solstice and Equinox, winter will always last six more weeks, whether or not that chubby critter sees its shadow.

Ancient cultures celebrate this mid-winter event as a time to โ€œwash the Earthโ€™s face,โ€ a time to clean all thatโ€™s become old and haggard so that fresh, pure possibilities can shine.

This week, why not fantasize about 2021? Pick three, wonderful dreams. Write them each morning. See what comes true, what gifts arrive by yearโ€™s end.

Visit beautiful flowers while floating toward spring with lovely, soothing Chinese flute music. 4 minutes. Click picture to view.

 

IMAGE: ยฉ canstockphoto.com/iqoncept/

The gold in Earthโ€™s core could cover every inch of this planet [the oceans, mountains and continents] with a four-foot-thick layer of that shining metal. ย ย Source

Over 13 billion years after the universe was born, that birth can be watched in the static on television.ย ย Source

Iโ€™ve heard thereโ€™s more space between the stars than between the particles in atoms. I just read that โ€“ if the contents of the atoms from all 7.8 billion people on Earth were gathered, that mass would fill an apple. Essentially, weโ€™re 99.99999% empty space.ย Source

Diamonds and Triangles

Baby Quilt & Wall Hanging

Diamonds and Trianglesย is my one-of-a-kind, reversible, dual-purpose 24โ€ณ x 36โ€ณ quilt designed to both cuddle babies and display as wall art. Dramatic African prints form the top.
โ€œDiamonds and Trianglesโ€ is reversible and is backed by a single fabric of joyfully-dancing figures. To display as wall art, a sleeve for a rod [of this dancing figures fabric] will accompany the quilt. 100% cotton.ย  $250.
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Sandra Gould Ford

Sandra Gould Ford is an author, educator and former steelworker who presents arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. She belongs to the Authorโ€™s Guild and Science Fiction Writers of America and is a former member of the American Society of Media Photographers. For more information, visit her web site: SandraGouldFord.com.

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