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"On a hot summer day, ten years ago, I'd been thinking about the enormous power of the metaphor mind, the mind that sees the world but through the lens and network of analogy. The doors of my studio were open and bees sometimes swept in and began banging their heads against the skylight. The bamboo outside was rustling like taffeta skirts and it was an altogether lovely day to be thinking. I glanced at my clay alligator on a shelf and there, next to it, was a jeweler's loupe. It was a dusty loupe, unused. A friend had given it to me years back. I remembered how he'd shown me seed pods that he kept in a box. Strange and exotic seed pods. So I'd bought myself a jeweler's loupe and kept it out - in case I should find some marvelous old seed pod beauty. Some of his seed pods were from Africa... and I guess I was waiting, without quite knowing it, for something that special, from that faraway, to come along to look at with my loupe. I never thought to look at the weeds and seeds sprouting in my own yard back then... though, had I known... Africa, Asia, Latin America, and hundreds of other unexplored worlds, were right out my door, and in my very room! Years had passed. The loupe sat. But, on this particular day, in July 1988, I was about to make a discovery..."

From:  The Private Eye - (5X) Looking/Thinking by Analogy  (Ruef, 2003, 1998, 1992