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Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals
a dozen of us with canes and walkers
visited the Rice Museum of rocks and minerals, awed by the cut and polished
surfaces of gray-brown lumps someone was curious enough to discover
contained layers, colors, streaks, blotches of exquisite beauty