Recipe for dissolving stones in water.

Wash twenty grams of granite pebbles

in water.

Rinse and dry

and set aside.

Prepare two litres

of fresh water,

(rain is best

or melted snow).

Pour the water,

slowly 

into a bowl,

listening to the sound

and watching for small bubbles.

Wait until the water

has calmed

and every ripple

bubble and

disturbance is gone.

Gently drop each granite pebble

in the water -

one at a time.

Sit and watch

(with quiet concentration)

as the stones dissolve.

It may take some time.

ã Sandy McCutcheon 2000