Welcome to the Coffee Hour / Open Thread. For today's suggested topic lets consider the Kaleidoscope. Have you ever played with a kaleidoscope? -
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce yourself below in a comment. Today's Coffee Hour is brought to you by the Kaleidoscope.
A kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose, colored objects such as beads and pebbles. The viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, reflecting off the mirrors. Coined in 1817 in English by its inventor Sir David Brewster, the word "kaleidoscope" derives from the Ancient Greek καλ(ός) (beauty, beautiful), είδο(ς) (form, shape) and -σκόπιο (tool for examination), and it literally translates to "observer of beautiful forms." Wikipedia