i thank you, cat and barbara, for bringing us together. it was remarkable to find all the different people in karin's life in one big vaulted room. thank you for laying the table with karin's gleanings of a lifetime. i treasure the drawing and crystal i chose. the mandala drawing of a dog with a crystal on his head is uncanny. though it was drawn in 1975, it seems like it was drawn for me. i've been making photographs of mister with a crystal on his head for years, and after i picked up karin's, i did another one. this kind of thing makes me think that while we're beings of time and in time, sometimes we also move across time, and through time, and dying may be becoming- free to move (without falling!) with unlimited time.