For the kids (of all ages), I am putting in some fun stuff and one of them is Ask a Geologist. It's under fun stuff.
Geology and Fine Arts were my double majors at Uni, and it may seem odd, but these two diverse disciplines wedged together like two tectonic plates and fought for dominance until I was about mid twenties with motherhood and craft overtaking the Fine Arts, and camping trips thither and yon standing in for the Geology. It was so fabulous to show the kids all the layers of rock in a road cut and what they could mean, and all the amazing variety of rock and cobble that weathering plucked and replanted hundreds of miles from the point of creation.
I was hoping for another Geologist to spring up out of the younger generation.. No luck.. They all did pick up the arts and crafts, and have an enduring love of sewing, yarn adventures, as well as camping and trekking. One of our daughters was a back country crew boss for Americorp and was based in Yosemite back country for a few years, too. They all love to play in the dirt- there's that Geology- as they are gardeners with endless energy to work the soil. So, the Geologist transmogrification is complete =0) and I couldn't be happier.
That really is an interesting study combination.
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The physical beauty of the Earth itself and the studies I did of the forms that make it up, through sketching and painting them early on, is probably the reason I went on to both disciplines while in Uni. I had become very curious about how everything received it's final form and the forces behind that evolution. It was certainly an interesting intellectual journey. =0) I only wish that I'd have had 20 more years of early life fitted in there, somewhere between 10 and 21, ( but not around my father) to fulfill the dream to know it in detail. International Geophysical Year just was totally fascinating, and, a turning point, and that took place in 1958.
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ooooo Celia, thanks! I've looked though it and sent an email to two of them.. one bounced but their is still hope. Hotmail email addies sort of scare me though.
ReplyDeleteer.. delia.. just smack me if it's still wrong.. sheesh
ReplyDeleteGoing for the Mazurka Pugknits. Let's see if she sold it already... hehe.. nerves jangling...
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