Until recently when ashes were placed under a microscope all that was seen was grey dust, but that all changed when Gabriela Reyes Fuchs wanted to see her father under a high powered microscope. What she saw was… Not dust. Not an ending. What appeared were intricate crystalline formations, mineral fractures, and light-catching patterns that looked more like galaxies than remains. Energy doesn’t disappear. It changes. While not entirely the same, when ashes are transformed into a keepsake, that h