WALL HOPPING…  After I got the photograph of the Nara Mask yesterday, I looked around at other memories from that period long ago in Southeast Asia, and I decided to spend another day with a couple of beauties.  One of them is a reminder that even chairs can be beautiful, in that part of the world.  I remember buying two carved pieces that had been taken from the backs of chairs, in China, I think.  

Another piece is from Bali.  I remember that it has something to do with blessing on the rice harvest.  The piece is held by an important person who is blessing the harvest, and it is later attached to a pole or post until the owners of the rice paddies have found that the blessing has worked.  Life is simple… and very good.