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Popping the Cork!

Do a Google search of "muselet" and you'll find many articles and images dedicated to an amazingly elegantly-designed, yet practical devise that has become a collectible art-form.  The muselet is that ingenious little cage that holds in place a champagne cork.  This "cage" actually has two parts: the metal wire knotted in a particular way designed to aid in easy removal, and the little "boule" which bears the makers mark.

When I named this blog "Muselet" I thought I had coined a new word.  As a noun: letter from the Muse, and as a verb: let the Muse speak!  However, it turns out it is a french word for "muzzle"!  This may seem an unfortunately opposite concept.  However, maybe it is not a contradiction, but rather, a sweet little paradox.

When something is muzzled, it is restrained.  It need not be entirely silent.  As the muselet keeps the cork in the bottle helping the bottle keep in the champagne until ready for celebratory consumption, so too I muzzle my pondering of paradoxes found in life's little moments until ready to be expressed in these little missals from my muse!

So, each time I hit "publish" it's like popping the cork! :S
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