Interesting picture, and it got me to thinking. When I was little there was a plastics factory right next to the Passaic River, and they would dump little translucent chips of colored plastic by the river side. My friend and I would take them home and couldn't imagine how such treasure could just be thrown out. (Not to mention, years later, the pollution aspect.)
"Treasure and traps are curious twins Which fate, before us, will scatter, But why do we blindly step over the former And blithely step into the latter?"
Yep. It's a Namoism, (unless I subconsciously lifted it from someone else!)
The tile gems you found reminded me of the book The Luck Factor, where they ran all sorts of tests on people who had (earlier) rated themselves very luck or unlucky.
One thing they found is the lucky people noticed stuff- money in the street, for example, while the unlucky people were oblivious!
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Interesting picture, and it got me to thinking. When I was little there was a plastics factory right next to the Passaic River, and they would dump little translucent chips of colored plastic by the river side. My friend and I would take them home and couldn't imagine how such treasure could just be thrown out. (Not to mention, years later, the pollution aspect.)
That bit of QMC porcelain has got me curious...
Did you find these today?
"Treasure and traps are curious twins
Which fate, before us, will scatter,
But why do we blindly step over the former
And blithely step into the latter?"
Sally: That would have been heaven for me as a kid! Do you still have any? What did you do with them?
lisa: I know! Queens Medical Center? Quantum Monte Carlo? (Ha! google.) I thought it might be Queen Mary something but could find nothing.
Barbara: They're some of my faves from the coffee table.
Namo: Truer words were never spoken. (Is that poem a Namoism?)
Yep. It's a Namoism, (unless I subconsciously lifted it from someone else!)
The tile gems you found reminded me of the book The Luck Factor, where they ran all sorts of tests on people who had (earlier) rated themselves very luck or unlucky.
One thing they found is the lucky people noticed stuff- money in the street, for example, while the unlucky people were oblivious!
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