[meteorite-list] Further precision re "Bessey Specks"

From: Thomas Webb <webbth1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 18 00:24:26 2006
Message-ID: <20061018042424.76793.qmail_at_web36215.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Steve, Dean and list,
Thanks for this post Steve. It clearly shows that one
person showing empathy for another can overcome
mountainous differences. Occasionally we get these
brief glimpses of caring which transcend even our
great love for meteorites and within these moments we
begin to realize more deeply and transparently those
things which are most important.
My best to all,
Thomas

Thomas H. Webb
Linville, NC

--- Steve Schoner <schoner_at_mybluelight.com> wrote:

> All of this brings to my mind the entire "Bessey
> Speck" issue. Back
> then, nine or so years ago I took extreme objection
> to such.
>
> Well in 2003 in the month of January, I came down
> with ADEM... I nearly
> died.
>
> But I recovered.
>
> And I received from many of you messages wishing me
> well, from all over
> the world.
>
> Well... Back to "Bessey Specks"...
>
> Dean sent me a package and letter of condolence
> which the nurse opened
> read to me, and inside the package was a round
> cylinder very tightly
> taped together, and there was a card with it with
> the words "SAYH AL
> UHAYMIR 90"
>
> At the time, I was speechless, (literally) and the
> nurse was perplexed.
> She thought that there was something inside the
> plastic capsule but
> could not open it due to the fact that it was so
> tightly taped. After
> a while, she gave up and left it on my bedside desk.
> At that time I
> could not use my right arm, which was paralyzed
> along with my leg and
> everything else on my right side. Others came in
> and noticed it at my
> beside, read the letter to me again, and a few tried
> to open it to show
> what Dean had sent.
>
> In my weird state of mind and being I was curious,
> too. I had no idea
> what the "gift" was. The name meant nothing to me
> in my then weird
> state of mind, or lack thereof.
>
> At the time many spoken words and written words were
> as
> incomprehensible as hearing or reading Russian
> backwards-- or forwards.
> But I picked up the plastic capsule with my left
> hand and looked at it
> intensely, wondering what it was.
>
> Then after nearly a month of recovery, I was able to
> look at it more
> closely, and with some degree of comprehension.
>
> Then, and only then, with a degree of comprehension
> back, did I realize
> that the little container had... you guessed it
> "Bessey Specks" Two,
> nearly microscopic specks of SAY AL HYMIE 90. The
> specks had migrated
> to the edge of the container to the point that they
> would easily be missed.
>
> Had it been opened by me or anyone else, they would
> have become nothing
> more than dust on the hospital floor (as if there is
> much dust there
> anyway in intensive care).
>
> Well...
>
> I still have those two tiny Bessey Specks and the
> card that he sent me
> on my meteorite shelf, along with dozens of really
> large in comparison
> meteorites.
>
> But those two specks have a treasured spot in my
> heart and on my
> display shelf. They are a memento of the time when
> I could have been
> numbered among the departed. And oddly they are part
> of the process
> that came about to bring my comprehension back.
>
> I hate the idea of reducing meteorites to "Bessey
> Specks"... but these
> two tiny ones... I like.
>
> So... One needs not muli-billion dollar equipment to
> appreciate them...
>
> Just a weird state of mind caused by a disease that
> shuts down the
> brain. And as it reboots, then the appreciation
> begins.
>
> Steve Schoner
> IMCA #4470
>
>
>
> Re: [meteorite-list] Further precision re "Bessey
> Specks"
>
> dean bessey
> Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:51:05 -0700
>
> > In other words, you need a Superconducting Super
> > Collider Particle
> > Accelerator in order to study one of these
> > specimens!
> >
> Yes, Bessey specks are of such extreme importance
> that
> governments spend billions of dollars building
> special
> equipment for the sole purpose of studying them
> Cheers
> DEAN
> http://www.meteoriteshop.com
>
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