About Kaleidoscope Notes

What's a Kaleidoscope?

The word Kaleidoscope comes from the Greek words

• kalos: beautiful
• eidos: shape or form

and the English -scope: to view or observe

To observe beautiful shapes 💖

A kaleidoscope looks like a telescope on the outside. And when you look through it, tiny pieces of colored glass reflect off of mirrors creating ever-changing patterns of colors as it turns.

What are notes?

• tiny handwritten letters you tuck away in a beloved's lunch
• a piece of scrap paper (or an app) to catch ideas before they move on to the next human
• lists, lists, and more lists: wants, needs, to-do's, to-dont's, desires, dreams, seeds
• observations of what is (from your view, anyway)
• recording ideas from lectures and talks and classes and videos and books and articles
• making connections and idea maps
• journaling, prompted or unprompted; seeing your thoughts on paper
• emphasizing ideas that are super interesting, unreal, important to remember, or quite simply, fun!

And my fave note as a verb definition from Merriam Webster:

note verb: to notice or observe with care

Notes are information filtered through our current awareness. What do I find important right now? What am I learning? What am I noticing?

Notes are a glimpse into what we're thinking and dreaming into existence. A snapshot of an idea in a moment in time.

Kaleidoscope Notes

Kaleidoscopes are ever-changing works of art. Every time you look through one, the reflections will never be the same. There may be similar patterns and colors. But each turn produces a unique form, a moment in time never to be replicated.

And notes are the same. They are written during a moment in time, never to be replicated in the exact same way.

May we explore and expand the beauty of our hearts, minds, bodies, and beyond. Ever changing. Ever beautiful.