Spring cleaning and sand mandalas

The Tibetan monks don’t have any monopoly on an understanding of time. I’ve watched with amazement when they spent days and days creating a sand mandala that was then poured into a nearby river. But anybody who engages in spring cleaning has a pretty good understanding of the transience of states of reality. I’ve spent the better part of 2 days cleaning out this pantry. It’s gorgeous now … and the fact that I say that gives you some inkling of the condition it was in when I began cleaning it. You just know it won’t look like that for more than 72 hours or so.

In case you were thinking this was going to be yet another non-calligraphy post … I did get to do a little calligraphy in the midst of spring cleaning:

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