The salt of the sea is in our blood; the calcium of the rocks is in our bones; the genes of ten thousand generations of stalwart progenitors are in our cells. The sun shines and we smile. The wind rages and we bend before them. The blossoms open and we rejoice. Earth is our long home.

-Stewart Holmes from Zen art for meditation-

intermittent glimpses of reality. fused steel, bent metal, ruler-straight plywood fall back into the dirt, the puddles and the invisible air. always have and always will.