What a Marvel is a Pen!

Ah! What beauty! What intricacy! All so diverse, and yet alike--have you not stopped, my friend, to marvel at these humble writing instruments? 

Look--ballpoints, felt-tips, fountain pens, gel pens--yet every single one serves like purpose. Each one leaves its ink to spell your thoughts. All can create beauty or monstrosity, for all have the common aspect of ink--ink which flow from the tiny hole or wets the whole tip--ink, contained within, perfect to stay on the page behind it. 

Think, my friends--what marvel of nature formed this wonder? Oh, we can see a little of it's evolution. From quill to fountain pen, to ball point, to fiber tip to roller ball, then finally, today, the height of glory: The noble gel ink pens. Richer colour, with greater diversity and faster flow--how fne a thing! To think that Mother Nature works such wonders without any outward help shows us again how great the forces of this earth are. Over the ages, slowly, the quills, fallen bird feathers, took form with tips and found ink to dip in--ink which, itself had slowly emerged from berry juices and from soot to blend and make a surer substance.Then, in time, as ink and pen grew ever closer, the ink made its way inside to form this glorious symbiotic union and thus become useful. By necessity, to prevent their ink drying, they developed lids and clickers to withdraw the tip, dividing into to families within the pen species--the lidded and lidless. 

And now, today, we can look upon this undesigned wonder and see purpose and profit in it's transformations. The diversity still visible today stands as a witness that no creator was needed. We have many links--like the rollerball which stands clearly as the descendant of the ballpoint and father of the modern gel ink pen. Be astounded, and look to the power of nature at work over the centuries.

What a marvel is a man....