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A Wind*

            In bonsai, there is a shaping wind in the hand.  
It flows from thoughts, a vision.  
It flows for a lifetime and the bonsai is never complete.  
At the end of that lifetime, the bonsai may be passed to another hand.  
Perhaps the thoughts, the vision, merge with that hand.  
Perhaps they diverge.  
Perhaps this continues for several lifetimes.  
Yet, the bonsai is never complete.  
It is complete only after every molecule of the bonsai has returned, pollenlike, to the ether.  
Eventually, a single molecule may reappear.  
It may reappear in a thought.  
It may reappear in a hand.  
It may reappear in a wind.

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Taken on: January 1, 2016

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