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172: The Erratic (For John Ruskin on the occasion of his 201st Birthday)

Posted on February 9, 2020 by jimspates

It is immense, a glacial erratic deposited near the end of the last ice age by a great, retreating, melting, sheet of ice, a glacier which had enveloped it for thousands of years, a reminder, for anyone happening upon it, … Continue reading →

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