Stone Tells

Bands of shale and limestone mark the core sample’s length, interrupted by a sharp fault cleaving through ancient strata. Close inspection reveals delicate shifts in composition – finer grains suggesting calm accumulation, coarser textures hinting at turbulent events long passed. The weight of millennia seems compressed into each segment, yet these layers also suggest an incremental expansion over time; presence sustained even where the earth has fractured and reformed. A cool grit clings to skin as one holds this history, not a solid record but a fading echo within stone.