Pocket Watch at 2:43, Antique Copper Print Block on Wood character puppet I've been reading up on

I've been reading up on Froebel's invention of kindergarten of late and getting all of Froebel's "Gifts" straight

This piece was carved of porous whale bone--with grey shell used for the pupils and white walrus ivory for the irises--by Alaskan Inupiat master carver Mark 'Delutak' Tepton

and one plain white (cream) side on each

with a terrific dark dry wood patina

-- but what a homely charmer

Pocket Watch at 2:43, Antique Copper Print Block on Wood character puppet I've been reading up onI like old print blocks that are good just as objects though this could certainly still be inked and used and clocks of all sorts always feel resonant to me: time ticking, time suspended, time carried forward from one period to another, and here a specific moment: 2: 43 and 22 seconds! (And, perhaps in a manner a bit like the question of whether the glass is half empty or half full, whether one imagines a. m. or p. m might have larger implications!) 2