Erratic . .

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Once, when I was traveling south in Patagonia (Argentina), looking out the bus window, somewhere between San Carlos de Bariloche and Bolsón, I saw a huge boulder out in the middle of nowhere. It was so completely out of place, it stood out like a greedy pig in church: as big as a three story building, rounded off like a boulder would be, if scored by similar giants when tumbling down a torrent, and completely dominating the empty scrubland around it. Miles to the west, the Andes.

Later, when I mentioned my discovery to a more knowledgeable friend, he said it was called a Glacial Erratic or just plain Erratic: a boulder, different from those where it rests, transported by glacier movement—sometimes for hundreds of kilometers—from its original mountain address.

The one in the picture attached is not the one I’m referring to, but similar—you get the idea. I might mention that I drove by it once and stopped the car thinking I would walk to it, and tried to, for an hour. Except at the end of that hour I was seemingly no closer than before. Not wanting to risk running out of daylight, I went back to my car and it’s been on my mind ever since. I plan to go back to it next year, only this time, I will be better prepared to go the distance and take some pictures.

Erratic seems to be the way of the world any more, or maybe its always been this way, from the beginning, only I never paid attention. Hard to tell, actually, but in the end, I think I like it this way. For that reason, ‘Erratic’ is also my word of the week this time, and I mean it in the sense of ‘unpredictable’ or ‘wandering’, although those that know me could argue that ‘prone to making mistakes’ is what I’m referring to—and I forgive them, as they would probably be right.

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