More to talk about on the same day.
I got so  tangled up I decided to go back and re read from the beginning to see what I'd already addressed in previous chapters.

I can't decide if that's a mistake or a blessing. There's a pattern emerging  in which a forward step that happens on the planet, but then  a major catastrophe that seems to cancel things out and the whole thing has to start over again. My problem comes in trying to figure out which beginning I'm addressing at any given point.

One thing is certain - Life is tenacious. No matter what come up (or down) some form of what we consider living biological material is able to survive and repopulate after the most extraordinarily violent events.

Yikes.

So, back to the salt mines.

Stay tuned.