I got to thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs' character John Carter of Mars....whenever it looked like the odds were hopeless and he had no options, his response was a defiant, “I still live!”

As in all of the works in this series there are ammonite fossils, though this time they represent an island in turbulent seas. I know there is some symbolic significance as to why he is holding an uprooted tree, but I’ll be damned if I can remember what it is...