Home Shrines -- Mother Mary, Kuan Yin,

OUR PEOPLE
AND INSPIRATION

Then a priestess said, Speak to us of Prayer.
And he ansered, saying:
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Kahill Gibran,
The Prophet

From joy
springs all creation,
by joy it is sustained,
towards joy it proceeds,
and to joy it returns.

Mundaka Upanishad

The following article was originally published in the "Iowa Source" magazine:

Duncan MacMaster’s Home Shrines Honor the Divine Within

By Claudia Petrick

WOOD FILLS EVERY corner of Duncan MacMaster’s rambling shop near the railroad tracks just off Fourth Street. There’s no music, no ringing phones, no humming machines—it’s as quiet yet full of life as the forest floor. Boards are neatly stacked everywhere, some standing on end, others in piles. An orderly progression of Japanese woodworking tools stands ready on one table. Duncan works quietly in one corner near the window, bent over a piece of Alaskan yellow cedar destined to be part of his latest undertaking, wooden shrines for the home and garden.

“Come meet my friends,” he says as he invites a visitor into his office, where four finished shrines and their inhabitants are arranged on the floor.
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