Other Week: Day 10

Original Post: A Bow of Gratitude
Date: February 26, 2013 at 9:53 AM 

One of the projects in my letterpress printing class (see Center for Book Arts) was a simple, 3.5 x 5 inch "thank-you" card. Close-up of the printing work is shown above (don't inspect too carefully); I used a nice, dark green rubber-based ink.  And now that I have printed a bow of gratitude, I send it out to all of my teachers, collaborators, and friends, to my wife and kids, and to everyone that has visited this blog over the past four and a half years. Thank you everyone. Gassho. 

[NOTE: This post will be the last in the Retrospective. Fun to go through all of the old stuff; a nice respite to not have to write something original every day. Back to "a place, a picture, and a comment" next week]. 

A Bow of Gratitude

One of the projects in my letterpress printing class (see Center for Book Arts) was a simple, 3.5 x 5 inch "thank-you" card. Close-up of the printing work is shown above (don't inspect too carefully); I used a nice, dark green rubber-based ink.  And now that I have printed a bow of gratitude, I send it out to all of my teachers, collaborators, and friends, to my wife and kids, and to everyone that has visited this blog over the past four and a half years. Thank you everyone. Gassho. 

Thanksgiving Day 2012

So much to be thankful for this year: families, and wives, and mothers, and teachers, and pets, and electricity, and a warm house, and good jobs, and beautiful weather, and forgiveness, and miracles, and laughter - and leftovers.

Gratitude is humility on a plate.
-Karen Maezen Miller

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. [NOTE: Image shows Song Dynasty statue of Avalokiteshvara from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; foxglove with pigments, gilding, quartz, and carnelian].