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Permineralization
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"Permineralization is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms."
The overflow at the hotsprings making casts of roots:
Now, I've this idea that if I hide a few stuffed dolls or animals under there I might in a few months have something curious for my desktop. My daughter and I tried it with one of her favorite stuffies at Big Hill Springs near Cochrane a couple of years ago - to no effect, wrong spot, but here, given how mineral-rich the waters are, might just yield better results.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permineralization
Russian Reddit
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"Are you also a pickabushnik?"
Google translate. Russian Reddit. How do you go wrong? And clearly I'm inappropriately bored. But there's more. Lot's more. Read them aloud in your best Russian Accent. The auto-translations are gold!!
LINK: https://pikabu.ru/
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
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One of the 20th Centuries greatest ethnobotanists (??? I KNOW I KNOW WTF) - think Wade Davis and the "Serpent and the Rainbow". Rest assured it's worthwhile.
Reforming Bad Habits
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And that now I should be setting about reforming bad habits, getting back into the routines of meditating, diet, exercise, writing, the new routine of crystal wrapping. There is time, after all, and the excuse of "the hell of other people" is no longer valid.
But it's never quite so easy as you think, once those habits take hold. For example, the inner monologue, it's largely disappeared, formerly rich - in doubt, anxiety, anger, outrage, indignation, but also inspiration and wit, and pass a sober day and wonder where it's gone. A drink, two, and there it is again. I've reset my baseline, and not in a good way.
And the exercise - easy enough when I'm working, or on a mission to gather some rocks, explore some caves or mountains, but now, here, in the perpetual poverty of EI/CERB and rationed gas, food, well, not so. Winter is not my season.
But, nose to the grindstone, a little over two months (guaranteed) left, and I'd better get my shit together...
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