A birthday present for Mukara

... and this line, furthest out from the stone's throw, is part of the first ripple; it contains the first indication of what it might mean for the stone to enter the water

... and this line is from a later ripple, a reminder of what meaning might come from a stone thrown in the pond

... and this line is where some ripples originating at the stone's throw intersect with a ripple already in the surface of the pond

... and this line is a leaf bobbing up and down on the ripples in the pond

... freshest, still full of the original impetus, this line is from the most recent ripple emanating from the stone's throw

this line is the stone thrown in the pond

... this line, also from the most recent ripple, closest to the source, less travel worn and worldly wise, innocent of the surface of the pond

... and this line is the reflection of the sky wrinkled by the passage of what meaning might come from throwing a stone in a pond

... being among the ripples in the interference between what was already present and what came from this stone's throw, this line's ability to express what this arc of stone and pond might mean is redirected and repurposed to another aim

... also from the later ripples this line has not traveled quite as far as the first or last from the stone's throw, saying a little more about the original moment and a little less about the traveling

... and this line, also furthest out from the stone's throw, is from the first ripple; and it is the longest record of emanation, of traveling through the surface of the pond from the center -- which was and always has been the beginning