when dirt was new

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Yikes! Another birthday.

Somewhere Peter Fonda is having a drink. It's his birthday too. I'm younger, so he must be really distressed. You better call him.

As my nephew Michael once said, he was born “once upon a time when dirt was new.” And since dirt, i.e. soil, is made by combining decaying organic material (humus) and broken down, eroded rock (clay, sand, etc.)— a process that goes on continually, day in and day out—his statement is altogether accurate.

Indeed, some dirt is older than other dirt and I know that I have dirt around the inside of my house that's much newer than me.

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