Today I'm painting stone piles in the Fall Five River Scroll. I've been painting these since 9/11.

Here's a photo I moved into my studio a while back. I snapped it at a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of South Korea over a decade ago. People build the little pilings outside temples to honor their departed ancestors. That's what I was told anyway.

When I'm too jazzed to sit in meditation painting the balanced piles grounds and re-balances me, and those who view the work say it's true for them as well.

I read this the other day: "The zeit is geisty!" Apparently it's from Jean Huston.

Sure seems so these days!