I became lost a few weeks ago driving through the University of Virginia
campus and came upon this building. I knew that it was the building
from a dream I had several months prior to my move to Charlottesville. I
discovered that it is Brooks Hall, originally home to the Paleontology
Department. I also learned that Thomas Jefferson was the first
paleontologist in the New World. This fact made me think of my
Paleontology Professor, Dr. Ron Parsley. I did a search for Dr. Parsley
on Google that afternoon and found that he was attending his retirement
ceremony that day after 47 years at Tulane University. It has been over
23 years since I last communicated with him - I was his illustrator! How
serendipitous!
