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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

**My father shakes his head when he tells this story. It contains so much for him. If you had a problem in his family, he explains, when he was a child, his Baba Esther instructed them to tell it to a stone. He laughs a little. “Can you believe it? This was the only way to talk about things.” He became, fittingly, a child psychiatrist, and then a psychoanalyst, but not the stone-like silent kind—the interactive kind, one who responds, engages.

And while I have reaped the benefits of having a father who values talking about hard stuff, I still find myself circling this story, around my great-grandmother, and her peculiar advice. Because they do call to me, the stones. They may not be good confidantes, but I am, without a doubt, pulled to them—both on the page, and real.**

https://lithub.com/a-gathering-of-stones-aimee-bender-on-the-earths-best-secret-keepers/

#literature #books #authors #stones

A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

My father shakes his head when he tells this story. It contains so much for him. If you had a problem in his family, he explains, when he was a child, his Baba Esther instructed them to tell it to …

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

the windowsill in my kitchen... some "ordinary" stones, a big lizardite, a black-blue granite from Renée's place in the Pyrénées-Orientales, 3 tourmalines, plastic flowers and... little branch of one of my Yew bushes I accidentally broke off... ya can partly see my creek.

#windowsill #stones #lizardite #yew #ya #photography

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

Gosse's Bluff, called Tnorala by the Western Arrernte.

Let us now travel 175 km west of Alice Springs, where we see 5 km-wide ring-shaped mountain range that stands 150 metres above the desert, representing the remnant central uplift of an eroded 22 km-wide complex crater. The scientific explanation is that this structure formed from a comet impact some 142.5±0.8 million years ago. Over that time, the land eroded down almost 2 km in thickness. What we see today as the mountain range is the result of differential erosion, meaning the shocked stone is denser and eroded less than the surrounding landscape.

source: Impact Craters in Aboriginal Dreamings, Part 2: Tnorala

#Aborigines #dreaming #crater #Australia #stones

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

Goa Gajah's cave entrance [+]

Cave entrance at the Goa Gajah complex near Bedulu. "At the façade of the cave is a relief of various menacing creatures and demons carved right into the rock at the cave entrance. The primary figure was once thought to be an elephant, hence the nickname Elephant Cave. The site is mentioned in the Javanese poem Desawarnana written in 1365." [Wikipedia (unknown date). Goa Gajah. (consulted 2012)]

#cave #goa-gajah #stones

Goa Gajah's cave entrance
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redj18@diaspora.psyco.fr
redj 18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRc0yaMW7Mw

Une de mes pièces préférée des #Stones des 60's

Non, je n'ai pas touché aux drogues pour être touché, marqué, par ce style!
Le #rock était envahissant, je dirais.
Si j'ai cessé de faire de la musique
c'est que je n'avais ni les connaissances, ni les moyens,
pour passer d'une culture à une autre.
Voilà, simplement dit!

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

Baurnadomeeny, Wedge Tomb, Co. Tipperary. [+]

Location – Just North of Rear Cross, it’s signposted and is a field in from the road.
OS: R 846 601 (map 59)
Longitude: 8° 13' 40.03" W
Latitude: 52° 41' 30.83" N
See map at the bottom of the page.

Description and History – This ranks amongst one of my favourite sites in the country and I can’t understand why this is not a much more visited site and much more looked after. It’s not neglected by any means but could do with a little care and attention. Again connected with Diarmuid and Grainne this tomb appears to have multiple alignments with different chambers aligned with different important sunrises. The tomb is surrounded by a double kerb, 16m and 11m in diameter respectively. The outer kerb is a largest but no stones stand above 1m in height. The tomb is very long, roughly 5m long with a septal stone creating the portico and main chamber. The capstone at the front appears to be carved on the inside to create a small channel. I wonder if this allows the sun to flow into the chamber. There are also some small carvings, of no particular pattern, on some of the inner stones, but I have not been successful in locating these. Some cairn material remains on top. This is a fantastically preserved tomb and really well worth traversing the muddy field to get there.

#Tipperary #Ireland #Stones #tomb #chamber #history @ramnath@nerdpol.ch ,@108madhuri@nerdpol.ch @Leyline

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

The Callanish Stones (or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic) are a 5000-year-old mystery that look like something straight out of Outlander! Older than Stonehenge, this incredible stone circle complex features a series of stones arranged in a cross shape with a central circle and 4.8m tall centre stone.

The Callanish stones are located on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. The Isle of Lewis is part of the Outer Hebrides archipelago off the west coast of Scotland and requires catching either a ferry or plane to visit. It’s well worth the effort though!

#Callanish #Stones #IsleofLewis #Scotland #Hebrides #mystery... @Shonie Hutter ♥

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