“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.” This astute observation about time comes from a distant cousin of mine, Albert Einstein (yes, that Albert Einstein).
Time, that elusive man-made concept that confounds us! With a sense that time keeps gaining momentum, we often find ourselves looking in the rearview mirror of life, or preparing to meet a future rushing toward us. We seem to be losing the ability to live in the present and, with it, opportunities to use it well. Authors complain that it’s hard to find time to write while readers lament the lack of time to indulge in leisure reading.
Animals don’t care about time. Just think how your dog greets you the same when you walk through the front door, whether you’ve been away for five months or five minutes. Animals live in the present. So do children. But by the time we reach adulthood, humans measure everything in terms of time’s relationship to us — and there never seems to be enough of it.
Earth knows better. And, according to L. Sue Baugh, author of Echoes of Earth: Finding Ourselves in the Origins of the Planet, it has plenty to teach us — if we listen. What started out as an artistic project with colleague Lynn Martinelli to document the world’s oldest rock and mineral sites turned into an amazing 10-year journey that Sue shares in an interview on Book●ed, available starting Monday, August 12th at 8 PM (EST) at www.bookedwebcast.com.
A winner of the prestigious Nautilus Award, three Ben Franklin awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association, and the Next Generation Indie Book Award, Echoes of Earth will transform how you view time, our incredible planet, and your place on it. This gorgeously illustrated, scientifically grounded, lyrically expressed book is quite unlike any I’ve ever seen.
During my ½-hour interview with Sue, you’ll see some of the awesome sites she visited — the oldest and most remote places on earth. You’ll also hear some of her incredible adventures as “the power, clarity and beauty of those sites radically changed the course” of the book’s original goal.
The newest edition of Book●ed is shown on Watch Now and in the Archives, while all previous shows remain available in the Archives. And while you’re visiting the Book●ed website, check out the Book Excerpts page where you can purchase any book reviewed on my show. To find out more about Echoes of Earth, visit www.wildstonearts.com.