A very intriguing shape is that of the star. It's found on flags of all nationalities, symbols of religions, and copied by young 6-year old artists worldwide. You can find them on sidewalks depicting someone's life, on wallpaper in kids' rooms, and swirling around a cartoon's head after getting blown up by an ACME bomb. Stars are everywhere in all shapes and sizes with all sorts of meanings behind them. It can be used to describe sports heroes or musical artists and they twinkle up in the sky as we wish upon them. It amuses me that we got the star shape from how the stars looked like in the sky to our ancestors, yet they are all round, according to scientists from time's past. One of the biggest holidays depicting a star is, of course, Christmas. We find stars topping our trees, stars for decorations, and even hold one particular star in a place of reverence for it's the one that led the shepherds to the manger. We have a wooden star hanging on our front door for the season in place of a wreath usually hanging there. It's interesting to me because of the structure giving the viewer two stars in one. I attempted to get a shot of it earlier this season, but either lighting didn't cooperate or my observations didn't come to fruition. This time, I believe, all of the variables fell into place giving me a good subject for today's writing.
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