An image one could call pedestrian might still convey significance profound. For instance, water dripping in a pan demonstrates fluid motion, waves of sound, time’s passage marked with every passing plink, properties of aqueous suspension, how ratios of geometries link, capillary action, surface tension, volume’s effects upon viscosity,  prismatic colors, current convections, refraction and trans-luminosity,…

After his divorce from Aphrodite,Hephaestus, lame god of the forge,re-wed Aglaea, goddess of beauty.She was the youngest of the Three Graces,and it was her job to attend to Aphrodite. Conspicuous in garment of the groom,Hephaestus paces the halls, limping.Aglaea, gargling in the bathroom,will take several more hours primping.Heph slaved at his forge so she’d be…