Kept close through long stretches where something is being built and there's nothing to show for it yet. The one we reach for on the days the work is invisible.
The marking · A jewel in flame at the center of an eight-spoke wheel. The thought behind it: the resting state of things was never stillness. A beginning and an end happen in the same breath, and there will always be more and more and more.
Carrying · Desk, workbench, the shelf above where the work actually happens. This is the one that tends to stay put rather than travel.
Practice · Picked up at the start, put down at the end. Your companion for the messy middle.
Gifting · Given at beginnings. New business, new studio, new school, the first week of something uncertain.
Carved from a single piece of palo santo, aged more than thirty years. No living tree was cut for it.
