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

[Walter Branch]

Hi Darren,

Very nice.  Thanks for posting.

-Walter Branch
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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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