The foundation was poured today. It seems strangely metaphorical, at the same time a dear freind wrote me: "From a documentary about the wild parrots in SF, the "parrot guy" is apparently a Buddhist. He said that the Zen master in SF went to Yosemite, saw a big waterfall, and said that it was just like humanity. The river is one as it approaches the top of the waterfall, then becomes a cloud of individual drops, and then becomes one again at the bottom. Hope you enjoy the madness of the trip and get a chance to contemplate love, beauty, truth, the good, etc."