Are we still here?
Not here. Not yet.
Who are we?
Not us, not who we used to be, not who we think we used to be.
Not them, not who we thought they were, or are now.
Have to think about that.
a few more words
Lord Dufferin left me with more words to look up than I have encountered in several—most--all— this year.
His book, Letters from the High Latitudes, has a lot of geological words plus ice and rocks. We’ll see….
schist noun :Geology a coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates. DERIVATIVES schistous adjective ORIGIN late 18th century: from French schiste, via Latin from Greek skhistos ‘split’, from the base of skhizein ‘cleave’.
si·li·ceous| (also silicious) adjective, containing or consisting of silica: siliceous limestone | siliceous sediments.
a·myg·da·loid adjective technical shaped like an almond. noun Anatomy another term for amygdala.
porphyry noun (plural porphyries): a hard igneous rock containing crystals, usually of feldspar, in a fine-grained, typically reddish groundmass. ORIGINlate Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek porphuritēs, from porphura ‘purple’.
surturbrand definition is - a variety of lignite in Iceland and the Faeroes occurring in seams between beds of volcanic rock.
More to come…