The rock and a picture of a girl in a calendar inspired this piece.

The rivers of Java in the Flores Islands have smoothed the rock for centuries. There is something enduring and safe about a rock that has been smoothed ever so gradually ... year after year. The Chinese character etched in the stone is the symbol for tranquility.

She is bound with a cord that is loose enough to step out of if she tried. She represents all of us, and even our modern, technical world of today. We are so busy "doing" that we take little time to just "be". In quiet and in rest we find the blessings of tranquility.