The Sphere in the Sand
I was recently given a kinetic sand table as a gift that has done nothing short of cause me to sit in wonder at it for hours. For those that don’t know, it’s a bowl filled with sand and a metal sphere that is controlled wirelessly through an App that makes complex designs and shapes. It’s like a kaleidoscope with sand that you control through your phone. I have truly geeked out over it and find it completely fascinating, calming and stunning. Today, I was walking through the room and I saw this design and that the metal ball had stopped in the center of it. The table allows the ball to pause after completing a design and let’s you admire it, before starting off on another pattern (How kind of the AI program…I’m refusing to think of Big Brother implications…(that’s Orwell, not CBS, to the young ones…)) So, I snapped a picture and suddenly thought—wow, what a great little lesson that is for all of us. As Caroline prepares to...