I always have said that someday I will study and learn everything about geology. Rocks in particular. But I never get around to it. However, I pay attention to rocks and have since childhood.
Like sucking on pebbles to keep my mouth from drying out on blistering hot days, while hiking alone on a prairie road . Or finding shale, splitting it into thin little slabs, and passing them around to boyhood friends. We would moisten them with our tongues, stick them to our lower lips, and then try to talk.
And there was skipping stones over the water. While swimming at "the lake," we would send messages to each other. We tapped two stones together in an improvised Morse code. It is amazing how far sound travels through water.
Even now, when I come upon a huge boulder anywhere, I sometimes put my ear to it and listen for what I might hear.
Clem
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