I woke to a bespoke Sunday morning, and I found myself in a Spring-Forward state of mind.
With morning coffee,
I awoke to my two cats.
My thoughts exploded.
As I was viewing New Posts on Metafilter, and I came-across a sharing by Kattullus:
“still sleeping underground and had not yet spoken”
My tangents started here:
Beyond Mesopotamia: Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite
I don't know what the cusp was, exactly, but I soon found myself here:
Which led me to:
Timeline of Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event research
{I spent a lot of time on sub-sub-tangents, as I have always been an avid hunter of fossils, and I spent an inordinate amount of time researching important fossil/paleontological location/references}
Somehow, I ended-up here:
And I had the answer to one of my kiddo's questions in the Environmental Science Coursework we have been sharing!
I learned about the "Father of Modern Geology,":
John Playfair later recalled that...
"the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time" 1
...and Hutton concluded a 1788 paper he presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later rewritten as a book, with the phrase:
"we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end" 2
Photo courtesy of André Cortesão
As Stevenson writes in the aforementioned linked article:
Devotion for divine favour
Sitting here--writing this--I found myself deciphering the language and understanding of being an Educator, gradually revealing the Codex of Engagement.
With these thoughts in mind, I now find that I have created a whole series of Lesson Plans for my kiddos . . . with no vestige of a beginning, and no prospect of an end!