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October 2009 
Can you create something beautiful just by looking?
Posted on Jan 21st, 2009
by 
Farland
Farland
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 20, 2009:
That is the way it is unless you have got a troll splinter in your eye or in your heart
A reminder of one great Hyperboreal story with many tellings
An evil "troll" makes a magic mirror that has the power to distort theappearance of things reflected in it. It fails to reflect all the goodand beautiful aspects of people and things while it magnifies all thebad and ugly aspects so that they look even worse than they really are. The trolls delight in taking the mirror throughout the world to distort everyone and everything. They enjoy how the mirror makes the loveliest
A reminder of one great Hyperboreal story with many tellings
An evil "troll" makes a magic mirror that has the power to distort theappearance of things reflected in it. It fails to reflect all the goodand beautiful aspects of people and things while it magnifies all thebad and ugly aspects so that they look even worse than they really are. The trolls delight in taking the mirror throughout the world to distort everyone and everything. They enjoy how the mirror makes the loveliest
landscapes look like "boiled spinach." They then want to carry the
mirror into heaven with the idea of making fools of the angels and God,
but the higher they lift it, the more the mirror grins and shakes with
delight. It shakes so much that it slips from their grasp and falls
back to earth where it shatters into billions of pieces — some no
larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are blown around and get
into people's hearts and eyes, making their hearts frozen like blocks
of ice and their eyes like the troll-mirror itself, only seeing the bad
and ugly in people and things.
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Farland, I’ve been enjoying your words for months- but this is my favourite lil dance yet. Thanks tons for sharing. I send hugs your way.
What’s the opposite of the troll mirror shards? What’s the thing that gets in your eye and heart and makes you see only the good and beautiful aspects of people and things? And would we want such a thing?
Thank you Davie I love this story and have various wonderful versions. I think the opposite would be your sunglasses, Dawn:-)
Oh good. I’m going to wear them tomorrow.
Farland!! the Girardots’ told me about this guy who is walking around the whole world! and he’s blogging about it, but I haven’t checked out his blog yet, but I will as soon as I can!! and then I’ll share it with you.