So, I've been questioning - some vague unanswerable things like how do I deal with the realization that more than half my life is over......and that in getting older the ability to accomplish physical labor isn't what it used to be....and then there's the whole wrinkle/fat thing.
Of course some of this is due to my recent birthday, and some of it is due to the lack of sunlight that comes with winter, and some of it is likely hormonal.
One song has been running through my head the past few days....
"And I wish I could know if the directions that I take
And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what i've been handed"
Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark
Now, don't get me wrong - I'm confident and comfortable with my personal beliefs.....I'm not worried about the hereafter or lack thereof. I think I just want the fact that I existed at all to have some sort of meaning - and I'm searching for how to assure myself that will happen (short of donating lots of money and getting something named after myself or committing some horrible crime that makes me infamous).
So that's what's been up with me - EXCEPT that I actually came across a wondering that did have an answer....and I thought I would share it with you in case you've ever had the same wondering.
Ready?
How do they know that the stones at Stonehenge were placed there 4500 years ago? Carbon dating works measures the decay of organic material after death - but rocks are millions if not billions of years old....so how do they know when they were moved from one place to another?
And thanks to archeologist Julian Richards and the wonder of Google - I now know the answer.
"The evidence for when Stonehenge was built comes from radio carbon dates which have been obtained largely from fragments of the antler picks used to dig the holes for the stones and the ditch."
Very clever, I think. I found Stonehenge to be quite a magical place and I'm reminded of how fortunate I am to have friends willing to show me wonderful things.
