Sticks may be safer than stones
Remember how you weren’t allow to throw stones at other students, back in elementary school? Actually, pretty much throughout the educational process, but especially in the early grades where you were kept in close proximity to others, and the skill of dodging projectiles hadn’t been fine-tuned. Anyhow, there may have been a good reason.
According to an article found in the Vancouver Sun this afternoon, a geologist from Canada has co-authored a study that claims evolution in rocks. Note, not that rocks are part of the proof of evolution but rather that minerals are dynamic. No more should we trust anyone that says an institution is as solid as the “Rock of Gibraltar”. Version Two is coming along, anytime now.
This has frightening implications. What about allowing granite counter tops into your kitchen, where there is access to knives and oven mitts? Should we now worry about marble fireplaces? After all, look how quickly man came along once there was ready access to fire. Is this a natural result of the care and handling given by the youth of my generation, when Pet Rocks were found under the Christmas tree?
Perhaps we should stay with furniture made from wood and plastic. Oh sure, wood was alive, once, but by the time it has been chopped down and sent through the slicer and dicer over at the local mill there’s not much life force left. Unlike rocks… we can no longer be sure what a sandstone has up its proverbial sleeve.
I’m going to tread very carefully from now on. Perhaps the last time I stubbed my big toe, it had nothing to do with careless walking and everything to do with a predator making its first tiny steps towards a place at the top of the food chain.
