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\n<\/p>\n\nLast weekend it was cool, gray, misty. We took a two hour stroll along the beach at low tide. It was perfect. The fog was comfortable and comforting. In the pewter light a father and his young daughter were picking up shards of weathered glass from the sand. We looked over their handful. “It’s sea glass, ” he said.\n<\/p>\n
\nSea glass? These bits have a name!?\n<\/p>\n
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\nNow that we had a search image we saw “sea glass” everywhere. We soon had a pocket full. Here’s our haul:\n<\/p>\n
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\nA name yields knowledge. When I got home looked up sea glass<\/a>. Aha! There are books<\/a>. There are collectors. There’s a national association <\/a>of collectors. And standards for colors. There’s a annual convention of sea glass collectors and trade show<\/a> (next one is in Delaware in October). There are enthusiasts, professionals, feuds. Anything of perceived value will have fakes and counterfeits<\/a>, and sea glass has those too.\n<\/p>\n \n \nMaybe this network existed before the internet, but I doubt it. Most sea glass found is decades old, taking years tumbling in the waves to smooth to a satin finish. So sea glass has been found forever. But before the network age it was a secret discovery, a private hobby. Collecting it was a quirk.\n<\/p>\n \nNow chips of broken glass is a sub category in the long tail. It is an activity tracked by the One Machine<\/a>. In the goodness of time, the web will embrace even the smallest thing we give our attention to. If chips of broken glass don’t escape the web’s gaze, what can?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend it was cool, gray, misty. We took a two hour stroll along the beach at low tide. It was perfect. The fog was comfortable and comforting. In the pewter light a father and his young daughter were picking … Continue reading ![\"Img](\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/IMG_4940_001.jpg\")
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