About this blog

Deep Dark Basalt is meant both literally and metaphorically. I write about both geology and the human condition. Each might illuminate the other in new or unexpected ways thereby making my words worthy of your time and reading. In my first post I wrote

For me, basalt is more than a type of rock. It is also a metaphor for the desires and drives seething deep within each of us. Think, for example, not only of our various fears but also of our erotic drive to create art, or procreate children. Then too there is our anxiety over the finiteness of our lives, as well as our yearning to transcend all that is human. These too are "deep dark basalt".

For further discussion, see my essay, Why I write this blog.

About the author

I (Paul B. Laub) am a scientist by temperament and by training (Ph.D. Molecular Biophysics, UPenn, 1995). Currently, happily, I am no longer doing science professionally. Rather, I now engage in science as I did as a child, as a way of encountering a world filled with mystery, awe, and delight. I live in Albuquerque, in the American Southwest, and spend hours each day outside walking and observing. More about me can be inferred from books meaningful to me and from my Google profile.

created: 2019-11-19, last edited: 2020-01-17