Stone of the Month: 

July 2022 

"Black Mountain"

By SeongPyo Hong

I found this stone n Saudia Arabia in 1978. It was lying on its side in the desert near Riyadh. Since then, we have been together. But ironically, this desert stone looks just like one of the islands in a maritime national park in South Korea named Heuk San-Do (흑산도)  meaning “Black Mountain Island” in Korean. Whenever gazing from a distance, my ears are ready to listen to the sound of waves and seagulls. The size of this stone is 25 cm wide, 14 cm high, and 8 cm deep without the base.