things are lost and replaced, and disbanded, & collected again in some kind of forever, just in every instant that we are or were something---watching time be time, and the plane of now coalescing into everything. it's just words, but, I think about this study that was done on water, 'Water: the great mystery' and how water apparently has memory, according to this documentary, & how also people are mostly water---and maybe whatever we are and whatever we came from has this memory distilled into ourselves through something so ancient, that nobody has any kind of way of describing it. anyway. hope the time at the monastery was fulfilling--the images, thoughts, silences, remembrances, & everything else. existence is like so many houses with no one in them. -------- darrenvallery