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  • Years ago, I started placing small "obos" in remote places.

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  • Years ago, I started placing small "obos" in remote places.

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  • On one of our west coast islands, I built a few obos on a rocky foreshore just above the tide.

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  • I've seen obos among potted bonsai in a sparse apartment high above Park Avenue's clatter.

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  • When I was performing at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, CO, someone had stacked about 50 different obos on the rocks in the river, and it made my heart sing.

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  • During a walk one day there were obos on many of the stumps.

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  • An obos is a Japanese term for a pile of rocks, often only three, one on top of another.

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  • So you know what I'm talking about, I've asked Andrew to illustrate an obos in the current clickback.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Ren Allen 2006

  • So you know what I'm talking about, I've asked Andrew to illustrate an obos in the current clickback.

    Obos and stuff Ren Allen 2006

  • I've seen obos among potted bonsai in a sparse apartment high above Park Avenue's clatter.

    Obos and stuff Ren Allen 2006

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