Arrangements
to infinity and beyond
“Quick!” Urania trips Thalia’s excitability switch when she spies the hot air ballon. “Get the camera! We can use an image of that flying machine in our current project.”
As Thalia races back into the house, Calliope repeats a short maxim she’s been practicing to rid herself of angst. “Never hurry; never worry. Never hurry; never worry. Never hurry; never worry.”
“Got it!” Thalia pants. “Knocked over a cup of coffee. We’ll have to clean that up later.”
“Go slow to go fast; go slow to go fast, go slow to go fast,” Cal murmurs.
Urania snaps several shots and stuffs the phone into the pocket of her shorts.
“You’re taking it with us?” Calliope queries.
“Just this once,” Nia slips a poo-pouri bag into her other pocket and the trio launches into the morning escapade.
On HiLo Drive there’s a ruckus in the treetops. “Sounds like a pinched baby — or an angry cat.” Thalia turns to Urania, “What bird is that?”
Shrugs all around… Nia remembers the phone in her pocket that has a bird ID app. Merlin identifies the call of a catbird.
“Makes sense.” Cal nods.
“Mmmmm-hmmmm. Uh-huh!” Thalia claps. “If the sound fits, name it!”
Nia has a vague recollection of following this curiosity in past summers. She pinches herself for not remembering. “Well, it seems we now have the makings of today’s 3musesmerge loveletter.”
Thalia begins crafting a visual to accompany the words in her mind’s eye.
“The key to creativity…” Cal takes a deep breath, “lies in using what you’ve got.”
It might be true that there is nothing new under the sun…
yet there is already so much!
Are the combinations incalculable?