Making useful stuff out of dirt or stuff in the dirt.
You get up in the morning, stumble down the hall, grab that favorite coffee mug from the cupboard and get yourself some Folders in that cup. But, don’t forget to grab that shiny spoon out of the drawer to stir in some of that sugary French Vanilla goodness. Refreshed, you walk a little lighter down the cold, dark marble covered floors. You get ready for the day, a smile on your face, especially after you admire the glittering piece of perfection on your finger that a special someone gave to you, not so long ago. Looking good and smelling the same, you hop in your fancy new car and ride off into the dawn of a new day, a new adventure that spans the endless horizon.
Well, admittedly I got a little carried away there in the end. Really, I wanted to highlight just how good dirt and rocks make our lives. Or to be more specific, stuff that you can make out of dirt and rocks. Since the beginning people have found incredible ways to use the things both on top of and under the earth. We can make things that are not only useful but amazingly beautiful also. Think about all of the incredible sculptures, jewelry, and ancient architecture. The fact that they are found in the dirt or rocks doesn’t make them any less incredible, I think that it actually makes it more so. We just take them for granted because we have never been without them. The amazing things don’t stop with art either. Take for example all of the seemingly average things in the story above including the coffee mug, spoon, marble floors, diamond ring, car, and the fossil fuels to power the car. All of them come in some way from the dirt and all of them are blowing my mind.
