Amber
Imagine: 150 million years ago, the bark of a conifer tree is gashed by a stegosaurus’s spiky tail. The conifer oozes resin to protect its wound, trapping a tiny spider it its sticky, viscous liquid. The hardening resin protects the spider’s body from decay, and after many, many years slowly fossilizes into the golden, translucent mineral we call amber. Now, all these years later, we’re able to study this perfectly preserved prehistoric spider as if it had been alive only days ago. No wonder humans have long associated amber with gods and magic! With its warm honey color that seems almost to glow, this rock is truly nature’s best and most beautiful memory keeper.
The Bottom Line
MEMORY KEEPER
“Remember and preserve your past.”
One Or More Of These Messages Are For You
- Searching through your earliest memories may provide the answers, insights, or inspiration you seek.
- If you’re an adult, going through items, photos, and videos you’ve kept from childhood could prove enlightening.
- If your memory is not great, ask the people who “knew you when,” for stories of when you were young.
- Make time to connect with any elder in your life and preserve the memories they share. You’ll be glad later if you do!
- Be sure to capture and keep your own special moments in photos, videos, and journals. You’ll be grateful later for having saved them.
- By the same token, don’t capture too much: A handful of well-chosen photos, videos, or keepsakes is going to be a lot more meaningful to you later than an avalanche of way too much.
- Set aside some time to clean up and organize your photos, videos, and keepsakes.
- If you haven’t backed-up important files recently, do that now.
- If you’re someone who loves learning or teaching about prehistory, amber wants you to know it thinks you’re pretty cool.
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