Elevator Music?

First attested 1817 in English, the word "kaleidoscope" derives from the Greek καλός (kalos), "beautiful"^[1] + είδος (eidos), "shape"^[2] + σκοπέω (scopeο), "to look at, to examine"^[3][4] : "looking at beautiful forms".

They'll ask (like she did) how does being 17 feel like.

She could say:

"It's a lull year, no one at 6 dreams to be just 17. That's the potential though, there is little preconceived notion of what being 17 is like. Something may happen currently beyond the realms of my imagination, something. Like how Charles Darwin theory of evolution can't explain everything and that it is a failure of our imagination to think in infinite terms rather then the theory itself.

I'm all tingly inside. It's a weird feeling of time running out mixed with running full force towards an edge that you think is going to come but never really does until you least expect it."

or

"Haha, I thought I would have a driver's license, a cool boyfriend and boobs by this time."


or

"Did you know a butterfly's wings are held up by a network of blood veins? Those thin leathery things, containing capillaries and analogous aortas. That's a heart vulnerable to all elements.

Shit, now I feel so guilty that I pulled off wings when I was younger just to see if they could stay alive."


But instead, she will shake thoughts from her head, clearing cobwebs and let them float lazily, insubstantial almost out of reach like daffodil fluffs, smile.

"Two words.Glow bracelets. "


Happy Birthday to all 7th September babies and a very Happy Unbirthday to everyone else.

Just because it's monday doesn't mean you can't have cake.