Sunday's postcard, and the stories beneath the story

September 1, 2024

~1.5 billion year-old Belt basin rock atop 48 million year-old granite at Willow Lake on the West Plains near Four Lakes, WA.

The compelling science of the present, on an improbable pile of deep time

My siblings and I were not the kind of children you’d want to meet at the end of a long summer day. As often as not, we’d been crammed (there were six of us)…