[meteorite-list] Best place to keep a meteorite= bathroom??

[Walter Branch]

Hi Darren,

Very nice.  Thanks for posting.

-Walter Branch
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From: "Trace" <temetnosce at shaw.ca>
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> Thank you, Darren, for posting that. It was beautiful.
>
> Trace
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:00 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Best place to keep a meteorite= bathroom??
>
>
> http://www.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=33982&format=html
>
> A Rock & a Kid's Bucket of Pennies
>
> Commentary by John Boston
> Mr. SCV
> Saturday November 4, 2006
>
> "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car 
> could go
> straight upwards."
> - Sir Fred Hoyle
>
> Time is such a creature, elastic, unforgiving, nonexistent, relentless. 
> Many
> years ago, I was a boy of maybe 16 or 17 and visiting my friends, the 
> Dotys.
>
> That was 40 years ago.
>
> A bunch of us sat down to play a game of penny poker and a cherubic 
> younger
> brother, John Doty, wide-eyed and innocent, wanted to play with us older 
> kids.
>
> I still remember wincing when he brought in his bank and emptied the coins 
> onto
> the carpet.
>
> I can't remember how much, but I took Johnny for some serious cash, maybe 
> ten
> bucks. That was a child's fortune back in the 1960s.
>
> Pocketed it all, too.
>
> I'll never forget that boy's beautiful, stunned face, trying to comprehend 
> all
> the chores, gifts and found dimes and pennies walking out the door in my 
> stuffed
> pockets.
>
> A couple of days later, I brought back his bank, every cent intact.
>
> "Don't gamble if you can't afford to lose," I told him. Then I did an 
> about
> face. I guess I was pedantic even at 16. Just the other day, he recalled 
> the
> event I had forgotten and repeated back my words.
>
> John Doty and I have been friends for 40 darn years. Isn't that something? 
> The
> other day, he placed in my hand a meteorite. It's on prominent display in 
> my
> bathroom. Mostly, a day doesn't go by without me picking it up and hefting 
> it.
>
> The size of a small child's fist, it's dark gray and very heavy.
>
> Almost every day, I shake my head in wonder. This nugget came from outer 
> space.
>
> Better.
>
> It landed here in Santa Clarita.
>
> I don't know why I am so frequently fixated by this other worldly object. 
> I'm
> not remotely a rock hound, although I do keep a collection of the random 
> ore
> from my 3-year-old daughter's mining operations around the canyon.
>
> How many countless, cold miles did this object travel before hitting a 
> desolate
> canyon in my home town? How long did it just sit in the dirt before Johnny
> picked it up? A month? A billion years?
>
> I don't know why I like holding this little remnant of the universe. I 
> pick it
> up from time to time and rub my thumb across it. It calms me. How many 
> light
> years had it been flying? There's no sound in space, I'm told. And, of 
> course,
> it's not like the rock has ears any way. But can you imagine? All that 
> time,
> coasting in all the quiet darkness?
>
> Earth can be such an unasked-for diet.
>
> I'm guessing this space particle was larger before it entered our planet's
> atmosphere.
>
> I don't know.
>
> Were dinosaurs even an idea yet when it began it's journey?
>
> Could this thing in the palm of my hand be older than the Earth?
>
> Maybe.
>
> How about friendship? Is that an eternal idea?
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