Sand & Feeling Small - Or at least that the world is large

Tonight we are heading to Another Way, a group that meets twice a month to share a meal and have a discussion.  Tonight's theme is sand.  I didn't come up with any physical artifact to take, but as I was thinking about it I started thinking about was the many different kinds of sand that exist.  I was going to say the many hundreds of kinds of sand, but I really have no clue.  Perhaps a non-fiction book about sand should make its way onto my reading list for the Read-A-Thon on April 10! (Anyone have a suggestion?)   At any rate, I then jumped to another subject that's been rattling around in my brain lately.  Several times in the past few months, I've learned about an animal whose existence I was unaware of.  (I think we'll be allowing sentences to end with prepositions in this blog.) And when my sister Kristal was visiting from Costa Rica, the squirrels in Indiana were a novelty to her.  Just thinking about all sorts of forms of nature that are commonplace to others but new and amazing to me -- it's the stereotypical realization of how small one is in comparison to the universe.  Stereotypical, but I've realized it in a new way lately.  But I like it -- it makes me want to go adventuring and keep learning more and more!