Black Agate Tumbled Stone Black Obsidian softened Mediterranean homes for thousands

softened Mediterranean homes for thousands of years - strewn on floors

White sage is the silver-leafed Salvia of the California-Mexico borderlands - Salvia apiana

but a quiet kind of presence - the resin people have reached for at gatherings where words feel insufficient

parallel traditions: each one an aromatic Salvia in long human use

the sage takes over with its familiar camphor-eucalyptol register

Black Agate Tumbled Stone Black Obsidian softened Mediterranean homes for thousandsBlack agate small tumble polished stones of deep black chalcedony, some crossed by fine grey white banding, filled layer by layer in a volcanic cavity. Smooth in the hand, sold in a small set. From India. Agate fills a cavity in volcanic rock layer by layer, each band of silica laid on the one before; black agate reads as deep black, some stones crossed by fine parallel grey and white, no two the same. It is the banded cousin of onyx. Agate is named