Day 10

Consolations and desolations, lightness and darkness of the inner spiritual life. Six Japanese Katsura trees. A box of wild grasses and black Palisades basalt from Mount Rainier in six-inch-deep water. Hand-carved Alaskan yellow cedar doors, seven glass lenses radiating sacred light. Intention and dogma created this space. If each of us constructed our own temple, our single solitary pool of reflection, we would see beyond the looking glass, beyond grass and stone and wood.