in total contrast with yesterday. And i can report that TenZen continued to be more frisky than usual.
there are enough now. Just many small rootlets to go
i brought the rock in. Rinsed it in the kitchen sink. It is 17 inches by 10 inches. Very heavy. All day, has been the central presence in the living room. It is hard to imagine the Circumstance that created this deep in the earth. Actually, impossible, for me. There is so much that is Unknowable.
It did not snow here. But the Mountain Rim to the west is white. Snow in the mountains is Good. The run off benefits All.
ADDENDUM:
Later, sitting in the morning chair reading The Anthropology of Turquoise, i keep looking up. Across the maybe 15 ft. or so to the form on the table there in the living room. It 's dark now. There is no light in the living room but the dim glow of the computer screen. So i look at just a Form. I find myself going back and forth. One part of me wants to know the "facts" of this piece of the Earth...the names that we have given the individual parts of the Form. What Kind? of crystal? What IS the turquoise substance? How do we imagine this was Formed? It is obviously only a fragment from some very larger geode. How large might the Whole of it have been? When was it formed???, How???? Things like this.
But then another part of me just looks. Just sees the form there. Sees something Inside here that has probably only always been
OutSide.
What might this be Like? To have been brought Inside a Place, washed in a sink, set on a wooden table.
And i realize that anyone i would want to ask these questions of are probably dead. Long gone. Maybe a few remain living...but so rare and i don't know how to find them. And maybe that's ok. That i had acquired the rock, it was given to me. I have had it ever since. Have had almost a daily awareness of it ever since. Maybe this is enough. Maybe i brought it in for just this. To WONDER about.
