A piece of earth

When I first visited Hawai'i, including Big Island, 2004, I became mesmerized by seeing how all the lava flow had cooled off and become new land. Through watching it first-hand, I understood and experienced how the earth was born. A magnificent and mighty revelation! Just reading something in a book or hearing it in a classroom, doesn't give us the same understanding as a first-hand experience, which is why it's so important to always seek the source, the origin of a piece of knowledge.

Many years after, and living in Stockholm, Sweden, I've learned that several rocks are remnants of lava and simply have developed and shaped during the years into what they are now also here. Earlier this week, I saw this little stone, shaped like a tear drop, on our local beach. It made my inner child happy to find a treasure.

I showed this photo of it to my Dad, together with a piece of quartz that I also found, since he's very knowledgeable about different types of stones and rocks. He thinks it's a Diabase, indeed a rock formed through cooled magma.

And again, this reminds me of how everything was made life through the same force, the same as we also were made of. We're all little pieces of earth.