The lovely carved Canada Goose that inspired me to begin Mandala #31 is signed "Aningayou." I don't recall looking at the signature since before the days of the internet. Otherwise, I am sure that I would have researched the name before today. Although I could have sworn that the carving was given to me by my youngest sister in the 1990s, a little bit of googling shows that the artist, Chris Aningayou, was born in 1983 and lives in Nome, Alaska. Given that he would have been 20 years old in 2003 and that I am absolutely sure that my sister gave it to me previous to that, it appears that he must have carved it as a teenager.
While out walking a few days ago, I noticed some scattered pieces of a downed tree that made me think of the I Ching. I arranged them into two trigrams and photographed them. When I was home again, I put them together as a hexagram which turned out to be:
62. Hsaio Kuo / Preponderance of the Small (Thunder On The Mountain)
The structure of the hexagram gives rise to the idea that this message is brought by a bird ...
(Source: Scroll down to Hexagram 62)
