Field Journal Entry #67 — “A Spark in the Stone”

Mineral Wonders never disappoints.

I was climbing a ridge of old volcanic debris when I saw it — a glint, just a flicker, like a firefly trapped in daylight. I dug gently with my field knife and uncovered a fragment of petrified wood shot through with quartz.

When I held it up, the sun caught the crystal and sent a tiny spark across my palm.

It’s strange, holding something that was once alive, then buried, then transformed by heat and pressure into something entirely new.

Deep time doesn’t erase life. It reimagines it.