Bead: prayers, pleadings, bets, stones of memory strung on a line, spells laid out on the string of fate and slid one by one with the fingers, a form of weaving changing the arrangements of energy on the warp of the world; weaving without a weft but with points of attention in the world; by extension drops of water, on the principle that the sacredness of the world is universal and rises from it.

Winter Rain on Ponderosa Pine