I chose this image as the Featured Design for January 2023 because it reminds me of a snowflake falling on a dark winter night.

This design is titled "Reverberate" because the sound pattern represented in the design starts at the center and reverberates to the outer edge of an invisible hexagon boundary, then seems to reverberate back to the center in a different, more complex pattern.

Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain,

and then settle to earth again like dust;

such are Noise, Discord, Jargon.

But such only as spring heavenward,

and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course,

which are the more refined parts of the former,

are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

— Henry David Thoreau

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Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

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— A.E. Samaan