Do you know about glitter? I read the New York Times article in December 2018 explaining what glitter is and I still am perplexed by it.
It is all over the floor of the Museum, the result of many trees of decorations. There will be more as the trees are taken down tomorrow and Wednesday. I quote the second paragraph of that entertaining NY Times article HERE to give you a sense of its presence in our lives today.
"Aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate settles over store windows like dazzling frost. It flashes like hot, molten gold across the nail plates of young women. It sparkles like pure precision-cut starlight on an ornament of a North American brown bear driving a car towing a camper van. Indeed, in Clement Clarke Moore’s seminal Christmas Eve poem, the eyes of Saint Nicholas himself are said to twinkle like aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate (I’m paraphrasing). In homes and malls and schools and synagogues and banks and hospitals and fire stations and hardware stores and breweries and car dealerships, and every kind of office — and outside those places, too — it shines. It glitters. It is glitter."
I hope you hop over and read about this strange and amazing substance that is now completely part of Christmas.
I found a joke to brighten up our Monday morning:
I saw on the news that a truck carrying almonds collided with another truck carrying glitter. Apparently the road was covered with with almonds and glitter. And I thought, "That's pretty nuts"
This 'field' of red Gerbera's makes a nice December picture.
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