Last night, we attended a memorial for artist Marvin Hill, who passed away earlier this month. His work covered subjects from dreams to books to philosphy and always made me think. We're so glad to own a few of his pieces and to have been able to say hi to Wendy and Marvin at the annual Art Fair on the Square each year.

It was a service overflowing with their friends and family talking and remembering. The blockprint on the left is his "Self as Others," an image he had when was first diagnosed, of people he knew and admired tossing healing leaves into a river. I was asked to read this short quote, one of the more serious, as compared to the Mark Twain and Homer Simpson quotes, since his nephew and our friend Dave couldn't be there:

Want to know a simile for life and death?
Compare them then to water and ice.
Water binds together to become ice;
Ice melts and turns back into water.
What has died must live again,
What has been born shall return to death.
Water and ice do no harm to each other.
Life and death are both of them good.
- Han Shan