New Addition

It felt something like riding a bicycle when you haven't done so in years: The first few moments are awkward and clumsy as you push forward, not in as direct of a path that you envisioned, but weaving in and out a bit, adjusting to your desired course. Your fine as soon as you get the momentum going.

The feeling was similar to me as I did some thing that I haven't done in years. Years. The event was adding a mineral specimen into the collection.

A piece of fluorite struck my fancy at a mineral show last year. It is a piece of blue fluorite from Alben, France. The shade and color may be the reason I was drawn to it, reminding me somewhat of material that I've seen from New Mexico, although this piece was paler. The French locality did not hurt either.

It did not take me long to record everything into my system. I hand wrote a tag, placed the piece into a tray that was previously readied, and filled out three file cards, as I normally do. This was follow up by the newer things that I do, I enter some general data onto a spreadsheet, and also any pertinent bits of information into a written draft that is slowly becoming a book.