Stephani Stephenson on mon 18 may 09
We have been talking about river clay and pumice and volcanoes and feldsp=
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ars and=3D20
decomposing granite and felspathic sands and silica and alumina.
every once and a while you get the big perspective on these elements we =
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so love to
mix and mangle and fire .
last night i had just left a movie theater, was sitting in the car in the=
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parking lot and=3D20
thought someone was jumping up and down on my bumper as the car rocked ar=
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ound a=3D20
bit. did it a minute or so later...looked around, but two teenage boys we=
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to be the culprits.
later found out mother earth was rocking and rolling. a 4.7 temblor up i=
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n LA had=3D20
everything
moving like jello down here. amazing, in a still car 95 miles away, how =
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soft and rolling it=3D20
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In fact, the whole thing felt pretty darn thixotropic.
which reminded me, that really , we are all sitting on a thin layer of h=
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ard, brick, soft=3D20
brick and mortar, atop one very, very, big kiln....
big enough, hot enough to bend everybody's cones.....even mel's!
Stephani
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