Sometimes while walking along a riverbank, the stones blur into a collage of greys, with nice, flat, round ones sticking out. The kind that can fit in your hand, and be skipped across the water and into the prairie.
You can skip them against the current or with it. It almost seems that throwing against the current could create more friction, thus producing more skips. How ancient in human evolution is learning how to skip stones. Rock throwing and stick throwing and tying a rock to a stick must have all evolved fairly early in the tool making process. Maybe people through rocks and sticks for an eon or so, and then tied the rocks to stick for an eon or so, and then used smartphones for an eon or so. As simple as that. Sometimes you walk along the riverbank, and find stones of a different hue, a different shade, or a different shape. I like to take them and make little mosaics under the water, because the water makes it all the more pretty and wet and shiny. Other times I'll find a rock that is so beautiful that I will throw it deep into the river, where no one will ever find it again, at least not for several eons. It's better there. Somethings are best kept secret (wink wink). If we weren't so scrutinizing and judgmental, maybe we as humans wouldn't have such large sticks up our asses with rocks tied to them. It's nice to keep somethings secret. Society as a whole doesn't deserve them. Only a few individuals.
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