Rocks until I was 16, books until I got a Kindle a few weeks back, keys, and a small collection of Baltic amber with occlusions (bits of leaf, small air bubbles, or tiny insects). The Baltic amber is the oldest, up to 54 million years old, and it just blows my mind that the things in it are from a time not long after the big dinosaur extinction. That, if I wanted, I could drill into the air bubbles and smell what the world was like then. It connects me to my planet in impossibly amazing ways. It connects me to a planet long before my species existed. It seems like the most preposterously wonderful thing in the world to me. Like being a kid dreaming of dinosaurs, except having the real thing in your hand.
Do you collect anything? (If so, what?)
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Rocks until I was 16, books until I got a Kindle a few weeks back, keys, and a small collection of Baltic amber with occlusions (bits of leaf, small air bubbles, or tiny insects). The Baltic amber is the oldest, up to 54 million years old, and it just blows my mind that the things in it are from a time not long after the big dinosaur extinction. That, if I wanted, I could drill into the air bubbles and smell what the world was like then. It connects me to my planet in impossibly amazing ways. It connects me to a planet long before my species existed. It seems like the most preposterously wonderful thing in the world to me. Like being a kid dreaming of dinosaurs, except having the real thing in your hand.