It’s a tough time of year. The Earth keeps rolling around on Her axis while the bears sleep and stars burn in exothermal reactions to light up the universe, and the people look at their calendars and review their bad habits from under their pillows at mines all over the world and wonder to themselves if they have enough time to fulfil their life’s ambitions?
It is New Year’s Day (or the 3rd actually) and geos are either on their way to or from temporary jobs they hoped would pay a lot more money and provide some personal satisfaction along the lines of exotic change of scenery. Drillers start up their cold pick-up trucks and muckers hang their civies in baskets from the top of the dry to put on diggers. Bills sit unsorted at home in piles of neglected anger. Cats and dogs lick their feet on the couch. Some people have cell phones buzzing already in their pockets bringing them news of opportunities yet to see the light of day.
It’s 2008, and no one knows where the world is going, or the price of gold, or moly, or uranium and Etrade may or may not pay. But, that is the mining industry and shovels will dig, and powder will blast and buckets will get filled with rock, mud, slurry, pitch, brine, ore and waste on the surface of this planet and underground. Meanwhile, I need to get cracking…
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Thanks, for keeping it real. It is hard to remember that every thing we do affects/effects so many people around us.
Good luck with the new year! keep the shiny side up.
Your writing is engaging and fun to read.
I don’t always feel very fun or engaging, though I am always interested in what’s on the other side of the hill (or Planet). Here comes a great new year for both of us, huh? Thank you for sharing your comment, Croso Geo.
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