This is Throwback Thursday #124.  In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general.  If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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A poem from December 1970 is up for this week’s Throwback Thursday.  It’s called “Resolution Lost”.  It comes via a few other newsletters – “The Rockpile” newsletter for Midwest Mineralogical & Lapidary Society and “Crystal Cluster” newsletter for the Desplaines Valley Geological Society.  There doesn’t seem to be any information about Blythe Best and The Water Rock.

It’s easy to identify with the message…  who doesn’t love to be out in the field searching and ultimately finding treasures.

RESOLUTION LOST

With aching Back and tired feet
    I start my homeward way,
To reassess most leisurely
    My findings of the day.
I look at them and with a sigh
    I vow I’ll go no more
Until I’m rid of all the rocks
    That line my basement floor.
And yet it seems as time goes by
    I let the sorting slip,
To do it at some later date—
    I’m on another trip!

Blythe Best, The Water Rock The Rockpile, and Crystal Cluster