From Being a single grain of sand to become a stunning piece of stained glass, a lifeskill nearly lost.
Who would know to mix gold in molten glass to create the Crimson Red glass or finding Cobalt for your blues? What for other hues? How hot, who knows, when the elders die, where knowledge goes?
I am often saddened by my inability to save more of these treasures that I have had the pleasure of stewarding from past lives into new future lives. Some are truly amazing compositions that are nearly impossible to understand. How hard it was to make this glass from sand, adding colors, with no electricity or computer to refer to for the knowledge of what minerals to add to melted sand to give it the such color, then cut it up and assemble it to create such works as this stained glass once was.
Then it was stepped upon, crushed, disrespected, and lost to hopefully be reborn again in one of my Pure Salvage Art Forms of Tiny Texas Houses, organic cottages, and searching for ways to inspire others to honor the past once they understand it will likely never be replicated. From the giant trees that took a thousand years to grow or the stained glass that took a year to create a single piece... never to happen again, it appears as the knowledge is soon lost.
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