The term 'timefulness' was also inspired by the currently popular Buddhist term of 'mindfulness' (awareness of the present moment called sati in the Pali language), which Bjornerud mentions on page 162. She extends this thought to encompass all other places in the world made of rocks and geologic time. The island is usually thought to be 'timeless', but she realized that the place, with all its geologic history, is actually 'timeful'. 'Timefulness' is not a commonly used term, but, as Bjornerud explains in the Prologue, the title came as an inspiration while doing fieldwork on the Norwegian arctic island of Svalbard, a remote, almost barren, place with 24 hours of daylight in the summer. The title of the book-Timefulness-captures its content. Her books indicate that she must be an excellent teacher-knowledgeable and articulate as well as passionate about her subject. Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of geology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Her first book was Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Basic Books, 2005). I am delighted to review Marcia Bjornerud's second popular book, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. Timefulness: How Thinking Like A Geologist Can Help Save The World.
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