My grandmother died in 2013.
She was a stubborn, brilliant woman who ardently believed in the value of science. She came of age in Brooklyn, but I knew her as my Nana in Los Angeles who worked with dinosaur bones.
When she died, my grandfather gave me one of Nana's necklaces: A jade stone with a gold chain. I wear it most days.
After today, I will look at that necklace differently.
While the jade stone on Nana's necklace was forged in the high heat and pressure of the Earth — an appropriate tribute to Nana's roots as a geologist — the gold of the necklace she once wore is alien in origin. Read more...
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