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I love maxims, aphorisms, proverbs, teaching stories, everything like that.

And I'm constantly collecting them.

And in that vein, I also love coins.

And a Cohen, K-O-A-N, is a question story or statement that can't be understood logically.

And Zen Buddhist monks meditate on coins as a way to abandon dependence on reason in their

pursuit of enlightenment.

And the most famous Cohen is probably two hands clap and there is a sound.

What is the sound of one hand?

And what my favorite Cohen is, what did your face look like before your parents were

born?

So you can't think about it logically but it seems to have all this meaning.

And so as I go through life, I'm constantly on the lookout for coins of my own.

Coins that I have found just as part of my own reading, my own travels through life.

And one of my favorites came in as part of my ongoing obsession with color because I was

reading this really interesting book, Color Chart by Ann Temkin.

And in that book, the artist Frank Stella is quoted.

And here's the Cohen, a Frank Stella.

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