Turning to Stone

In Turning to Stone. , Marcia Bjornerud invites you into a geo-centric perspective, in which rocks are raconteurs, companions, mentors, oracles, and sources of solace. She dispels the notion that rocks simply are and instead help you to see them as living entities with biographies that intersect with our own. Contrary to their reputation, rocks are alert, responsive, and communicative. Their long and complex lives represent an alien kind of animacy in which matter is forever in the process of transformation, simultaneously impermanent and eternal. Rocks are the forcefield in which we live, the infrastructure of our existence. They are also shape shifters and fortune tellers. Once one becomes attuned to the dialects of rocks, it is obvious that the earth is speaking to us all the time.