Offering

 

 

 

On January 16th of this year, I left this (store-bought) Jizo next to a Hobbit-like door at the base of a tree outside an artist's gallery on Rocky Neck.  I check in on him whenever I'm up there. Recently I found that someone had left an offering of a very pretty abalone shell. Fun! It's touching to see when people (or a single) person gets what's going on and interacts in such a cool way..  My neighbor once told me that anonymously leaving Jizo's here and there to be found by others seemed kind of creepy to him, but from my experience, people (the majority of them adults, surprisingly) really connected with the idea.

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