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To: Gauguin who wrote (51418)	5/29/2000 2:35:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

really like rocks. There are a lot of things I like about them. I like rocks too... a lot.... But then, I think you knew that already.... I like rocks that have been in the ocean.... because the ocean is inside of them.... forever.... no matter where they go... I like rocks with fossils inside.... Flat limestone ones that you split with a hammer to release the fish that have been trapped inside for eons.... I like giant rock faces... with petroglyphs carefully pecked and chipped into them... And geodes.... that are like treasure boxes... And interesting shaped rocks of any kind.... big limestone rocks which water has dripped on for years to dapple the surface.... Or sandstone that has been worn away until it looks like a Henry Moore sculpture.... Or pieces of petrified wood.......once wood, now stone.... Or black slate with little trilobytes all over it..... Or great octagonal pillars of basalt stretching out into the sea like stepping stones for a giant... Large or small.... I love them all...

To: Gauguin who wrote (51418)	5/29/2000 2:16:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I like rocks, too. I have a bowl made of cobalt blue glass on my desk at work, full of small rocks that have significance in my life. I don't really recall what the significance is, exactly. I used to ask people who were going on trips to bring me back a rock, and I'd save them in the bowl. But now I can't remember where any of them are from. Probably just as well, in light of the fact that they probably came from somewhere else, anyway, and got pushed there by a glacier, or moved there by a river. I also have crystals, and fossils, most of which I bought, and even a rock-like thing that was made by a meterorite, it looks like an elongated raindrop. I used to have a large round smooth rock with a navel in it, and took it everywhere, but left it somewhere on purpose in hope of changing my luck. I think that might have worked.