fengshui...

it was another late night on campus (well...not too late, i was gone before the sprinklers started), so on my way home i took a commemorative photo of one of our many campus fountains. this one's on library walk near student health. and though it's not much of a looker during the day, there was something rather inviting about it late in the evening...

i wonder what it is about fountains and flowing water, the way they calm us down, draw us in. it's certainly a notable element in eastern cultures, but is there a similar counterpart in western cultures? i can think of bubbling brooks and placid lakes (wait...lake placid...isn't that a shark night movie? oh geez...), but i wonder if there is a similar kind of cultural significance placed on water (or wind or fire or wood or metal or earth...). is there a religious significance, perhaps? hmm...