As history will dictate

Friday, January 20, 2023 | 90 Views |

My thoughts were taken to another time and place as I peered at the delicately and artistically bonded cobblestones.

The Latin name for rock is saxum and as this word traversed my mind, I pondered if stones last forever? Of this I can’t say, but needless to say they never die.

Though, just as humans do, they evolve over time. I wondered what these intricate stone carpets must have witnessed over the passage of centuries.

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