Remnants of Earth’s mantle, carved and worn by the wind and the sea and tides, rises, peaks, and verdant outcroppings strewn with nature’s bounty: these are blessings unfurled and multiplied in extraordinary peace.

In the beginning, there were two souls. We loved each other and still do. We had two children whom we loved with all our hearts and still do. One day a fierce gale brought sorrow into our midst, and we were sore afraid. The wind blew away the music and the color from our lives. We had to find them again or die. And so began our search amid all creation for what was lost. We journeyed among the gifts that tucked themselves into stone, the rush of wind and water, all that lives and breathes magnificence, the lush and the parched, and pearls and diamonds in the sky.