Personal

Expressing themes of the cycle of life and death in nature, and in our lives; creating pieces expressing the ideas of life as traveling both outward as well as inward as expressed in Rilke’s poem from The Book of Hours of ‘ever widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one, but I give myself to it.”

“You will find meaning where you give meaning” – Pádraig Ó Tuama

Ralph Dell – Living & Dying as Part of Life’s Cycle

Ralph got the long end of the wishbone. I asked him what he wished for. He replied, “I wish everything would clear up and we could go home again!

Family

We blended our families into the Hein-Dell clan over the 4 decades we were together.

Vermont

We have sunk our taproot deeply into these rocky ledges on Maple Hill Lane in the Village of Jacksonville (Town of Whitingham) in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains.

Leaping for Joy

The 12 cashmere goats and I leap for joy to be freed from the snowy constraints of the Vermont winter.

Shakuhachi 節切尺八

The Shakuhachi bamboo flute was first used by the monks of the Fuke Zen of Zen Buddhism in the beginning in the 16th century in the practice of suizen (blowing meditation)…