Gold Spots

Nice essay about the history of the blinking cursor. It's everywhere, serves a very useful function but does not call attention to itself. Made me think about what part of the human body it would be most like - eyelashes perhaps maybe the pinky toe? I found it hard to assign the blinking cursor the value it deserves

the items we cherish, protect, and even ignore in our daily lives are all part of a larger and often unexamined picture. Small moments or inventions may not live vividly in the public consciousness, but they are still nonetheless crucial points of color -- like strikes of gold creating a pointillism sun. If we can appreciate small legacies like these, maybe we can learn to appreciate our own as well.

So much around us in our everyday life are this "strikes of gold". The things we are so accustomed to that we don't recognize it to be special. Any time I reach out for my needle threader, I give thanks to whoever thought to invent it. The same is true for nail clippers. When you luck upon a really good one, you really never want to part ways with it. My favorite nail clippers were from my father's trip to Japan when I was a kid. I took it with me when I left to college and it remained with since then and now J has it because it is her favorite too.