Thirty-Eight Years of Unearthing Stories
Steven Veatch (noreply@blogger.com)
By
Steven Wade Veatch The Deepest Secrets of
the Earth They say that a person
starts writing to record history, but they keep writing because they’ve become
a part of it. I still remember the physical toll and the sudden, breathless
reward of a specific dig in the Colorado dirt: my rock-hounding partner and I
had excavated eighteen feet down, a vertical journey through layers of time.
Then, we found it. Reaching into a fresh rock
pocket, my fingers brushed against the cool, sharp faces of blue,