Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy I am not certain if

I am not certain if representing a man or a woman

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

Old Maid in its current incarnation dates to the early 1880s

the message to his dear uncle in Grenoble: better late than never ("mieux vaut hard que jamais

As documented

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy I am not certain ifSince finding a sweet old homemade kaleidoscope this summer, I've kept a keen eye out I find kaleidoscopes magical things, and there is something especially special, and very tender too, about someone having created that magic for themselves! Homemade ones like this have no turning parts; you just turn the whole thing to move the little bits of colored glass around inside, landing in different patterns. Not the most spectacular kaleidoscopic effects