Some things blow my mind.
Do you realize that all music...ALL music...is made up of only 11 tones? Mozart had the same things to work with as Paul McCartney as Willie Nelson as my daughter. Think about all the songs and tunes through time and culture....all of it from 11 tones.
Telephones...
I know it has something to do with impulses through the wire, but seriously, do you ever stop to think of how many zillion impulses are being sent and not scrambled? AND that it still sounds like your voice when it gets to the other end! Cell phones are easier for me to comprehend than regular old wall phones.
We have this secret code called "the alphabet" and with it, books are written, ideas sent to others, thoughts saved in hard form. Twenty six letters...that's all we've got to work with. Next time you pick up a magazine or book, think about the fact that we only have 26 letters to use in combinations! (I know. Someone is going to send me the 26 squared information. But STILL!)
I understand applying paint or pigment to canvas and other things, but I still, still, STILL am completely in awe at how someone could look at a big hunk of rock and with fairly primitive tools, create a 3D figure of a person like Michelangelo's David. What kind of brain can DO that? What outrageous gift of talent is THAT? I can't even make Playdough look like a human! Or a cat. Maybe a snake.
Don't get me started on the pyramids in Egypt...
Nearly every day, I find something that astonishes me to my toes...
Spider webs shouldn't work, but they do.
Microwaves...what's up with THAT, by the way?!
Yeast; it's alive, but it looks like it's just plain old cooking matter.
Maybe this is why I don't really read a lot of fantasy or science fiction books...
Real life is already full of unbelievable, wonderful things!
(Side note, here: The kids and I just finished listening to A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle in which the characters tesseract, travel in the fifth dimension. It made my brain hurt, just trying to think about dimensions...time isn't really linear because it only goes one way. Good GRIEF! I'm still working on the idea of a phone made of string between two tin cans...)
