The Difference between. Crystal Balls and Snow Globes?
Well we’re standing here on another of what will from here forward be called “the edge days.” In the previous entry a promise of humor and rhyme and meditation and celebration was offered and some humor and rhyme was given. Now we will continue. Snow globes…. We shake them and yet after the storm little seems to have changed. As it so often happens we have to figure out who or what is to blame when action is taken and little happens…so let’s take a look shall we….
Why pick on snow globes? Well once Christmas passes the decorations slowly disappear from our fireplaces, tables, towel racks and the elves seem to escape from almost every shelf. However, because they are collectible these shakable spheres seem to have a longer shelf life in many homes (ours included). also… because. They remind us of winter all year around they bring thoughts of snow and snow is no laughing matter for some folks unless it is contained in this clear plastic or glas bubble.
More about the globes in a minute… first some snow humor…?
Where does frosty keep his cash… In a snow bank of course and what type of hair cut and style does his wife always get… well a permafrost.
Oh and why do most kids only make one and a half feet on a snowman… because there’s usually a half foot of snow already on the ground. Finally be careful when you give Elsa a snow blower…she’s gonna “let it go!”
enough already…yep back to the globes..
Austrian Erwin Percy is credited with inventing snow globes in the late 1800’s and he and is brother Ludwig went commercial with them in about 1900 at a shoppe in Vienna. The ‘snow in these globes was never snow it was bone or rice or some types of sand. Now like much of our holiday season and the stuff we buy to celebrate or give each other the once fine crafted glass and ceramic is plastic floating in plastic surrounded by fat and alcohol. Are we saying we have poisoned the season?
the first U.S. Patton for globes. We issued to Joseph Garaja in 1927 and by the 1940’s a lot of companies were using these pretty things as advertising promotions. Of course big companies are and have for some time turned them into collectible items where they sit idly on shelves waiting to be shaken but children often hear adults saying “no no no don’t touch that…”.
So what we have hear in summary is a thing of beauty that can be shaken and watched but in the end doesn’t change a thing and is getting faker and faker all the time. Maybe in order to seek peace and joy we could just go outside and lay down in the snow and make an angel or two instead?
Or maybe we could realize that many storms in our lives are like the globe’s storms temporary and will settle down int something. That naught shake again, and yet will not shake anything that is at our core and solid. Maybe we should get to know what is at our core and understand that no amount. Of shaking or multiple storms. Will not disturb our purposes. Maybe we could think of ourselves as the creators of the globes we live in and we need not worry about who is shaking it or who on the outside is looking in or what they think?
Maybe we can realize that as long as we won’t go outside our little bubble nothing can change? Maybe we can figure out that the longer we live in these bubbles the more plastic and poison our world will become? The longer. We stay in the bubble the more likely we are to wind up on a shelf where. Others will look, but no one will move you to give you a different vantage point?
Snow globe or Crystal Ball?
Well you know there is no difference between the two if we give into fear, however if we use love and empathy to work outside the bubble then the future can change and what’s inside our world can change. On the other hand… if we won’t leave our plastic existence then shake as much as you’d like or get shaken and your snow globe tells the future like the world’s greatest crystal ball….we all have choices to make standing here on the edge.
Anyway… that’s enough floating around for today…. Tomorrow some poetic prayer and meditation….
Until then…lead us not into temptation… just tell us where it is and we’ll find it….
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