Now for something totally different

 Today we will talk about clothessss, because that is what I want to talk about. But since people like to oohh and aahh about things, real fast. So like, in space there's no life but lots of diamonds. But on earth, there is lots of life and less diamonds. So I ran across a photograph of emeralds and I sat awe-struck a good minute, thinking of how humans are spellbound by shimmery materials. Here is the photograph:

Pretty picture! I like this other one better: 

Stolen! From Bazaar. Stuck for 15 minutes at the grocery store, all they had left of fashion magazines was a Vogue and a Harper's Bazaar.

I have said many times lately about how I love clothes, and the style now is something truly special, no joke. Because after so many years of having to make beautiful, intricate, fancy, well planned design, we have things that look like what all the little girls did with their cut offs when they were young and someone had a sewing box. They attempted to sew the leg trimmings onto something else.

Of course that isn't the exact element, but it is close. In the photo I'm about to show, your typical body shaping dress, leopard print, add pink puff sleeve. Upper right corner. I have mastered the latest trend, a mix of fancy with gold-rush-casual denim and tee design. 

The thing that gets me is how we have made it into a new time of knowledge, and our direct (excuse, director, influence) is the technology which has outgrown and out-valued the gold and gemstones. Yesterday, I considered that although humans will place ridiculous value in rocks for still longer, the value of other things has been changed, thanks to technology. 

With ease and now with our typical over doing it, we have everything at our fingertips, and the 

expression which may have once been glaringly obvious is now subtle but intuitive. Highly intuitive. Surely I'm not the only person who feels a sense of something more valid than rocks now? Surely not.