2/26 Blog
HIATUS, extinction, and parents
Weebly (runs these sites) emailed me. Personally.
It's been 8 days since my last post. Where have I
been? Weebly was just checking in like an old friend,
mother even. Of course I don't have any old friends
who would consider 8 days hiatus from me any cause
at all for concern. The time line is more like 8
decades. Mother? She died when my beloved niece
was a few months old. My mother is the one on hiatus.
As a matter of fact she used the word "hiatus"** from time to time.
The only person to use that word. An eloquent word with Patrician
roots in high school Latin. Later, I encountered hiatus again in my
first month of retuning to collage after a 27 year hiatus, if I dare
use the word again. My geology professor - a specialist in hydrology -
explained the concept of a hiatus in the rock sequence. There was one
that no one had explained yet, a time when very few sediments were
layered down - the time the dinosaurs became extinct - at the
K-T boundary. (KT are the initials for Cretaceous and Tertiary periods
of geologic time, using the German spelling "K" instead of "C." A fact not many people
find interesting)
Less than 5 years later a father and son (Luis and Walter) team found
a thick layer of iridium in the layer all around the globe.
Then they found a crater made by a meteor. I'm sure they contacted
each other more then once every 8 days before the illustrious Luis died.
Death, dinos, meteors, and Hiatus. My thoughts for the last 8 days.
Glad you asked, Weebly?
** hiatus (n.) 1560s, "break or opening in a material object,"
from Latin hiatus "opening, aperture, rupture, gap," from pp. stem
of hiare "to gape, stand open" (see yawn (v.)). Sense of "gap or
interruption in events, etc." is first recorded 1610s.
Weebly (runs these sites) emailed me. Personally.
It's been 8 days since my last post. Where have I
been? Weebly was just checking in like an old friend,
mother even. Of course I don't have any old friends
who would consider 8 days hiatus from me any cause
at all for concern. The time line is more like 8
decades. Mother? She died when my beloved niece
was a few months old. My mother is the one on hiatus.
As a matter of fact she used the word "hiatus"** from time to time.
The only person to use that word. An eloquent word with Patrician
roots in high school Latin. Later, I encountered hiatus again in my
first month of retuning to collage after a 27 year hiatus, if I dare
use the word again. My geology professor - a specialist in hydrology -
explained the concept of a hiatus in the rock sequence. There was one
that no one had explained yet, a time when very few sediments were
layered down - the time the dinosaurs became extinct - at the
K-T boundary. (KT are the initials for Cretaceous and Tertiary periods
of geologic time, using the German spelling "K" instead of "C." A fact not many people
find interesting)
Less than 5 years later a father and son (Luis and Walter) team found
a thick layer of iridium in the layer all around the globe.
Then they found a crater made by a meteor. I'm sure they contacted
each other more then once every 8 days before the illustrious Luis died.
Death, dinos, meteors, and Hiatus. My thoughts for the last 8 days.
Glad you asked, Weebly?
** hiatus (n.) 1560s, "break or opening in a material object,"
from Latin hiatus "opening, aperture, rupture, gap," from pp. stem
of hiare "to gape, stand open" (see yawn (v.)). Sense of "gap or
interruption in events, etc." is first recorded 1610s.