Sunday, November 3, 2013

Kaleidoscope

kaleidoscope
noun. A toy consisting of a tube containing mirrors and pieces of colored glass or paper, whose reflections produce changing patterns that are visible through an eyehole when the tube is rotated. A constantly changing pattern or sequence of objects or elements.

The wind picked up, making her wonder how long she had been lost in the book. She looked around, hoping to see a deer at the verge of the woods, but she was alone. She marked her place, set the book aside, and shifted so she could lie down on the grass. Closing her eyes for a moment, she suddenly recalled one of her favorite ways to exercise her imagination--done since late childhood. She removed her glasses, placed them on the book, smiled to herself, then opened her eyes. Above her, the wind tossed the screen of leaves this way and that, while her nearsighted vision transformed the view into a kaleidoscope of golds, oranges and browns.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.

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