As noted in an earlier listing, one of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how a thing (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to another thing (like a wooden sphere) elucidates both while also opening possibilities for what one might do with them. Anyway, often I pick up little things when I am out an about, just because they have great forms, or great color, or just feel good to hold on to--so I thought I might start occasionally listing a group of a few little things together as one thing, because they seem all the better together. So here are these two stones, one a beautiful yellow/green onyx, the other I know not what sort, but definitely rock and with a surface that makes it look as if rolled in powdered sugar. Similar in form but a study in contrasts in almost every other regard, and both lovely things to carry around (both of really nice weight, and both fitting perfectly in the palm of the hand) or set somewhere side by side. More beautiful in person, and both with a satisfying sense of substantialness and presence.

Onyx sphere about 2" in diameter; other stone about 1 7/8". Sold as a pair.