As the old Four Aces song says, ‘Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.’ The Ancient Greeks identified 6 separate forms of LOVE; romantic love, familial love, platonic love, self love, guest love and divine love, for those of us with a certain passion we know that there is one missing from their list , STONE LOVE! Radiating this out to the wider world is a brotherhood formed through stone, Zach Johnson and John Engelland. Universes mysteriously aligned and these two serendipitously found one another in the same place, at the same time with the same philosophy and outlook. Combining their forces they produce work together under the apt title of Rising Star. Their approach is unique they bring to the craft a spirituality and humanity that speaks to the best of what is inside us all, if we would only the take time to listen and appreciate. Spreading STONE LOVE and positivity is a key component of their message, they express that daily through their intimate relationship with the earth and their own processes, sharing their thoughts with the wider world through thoughtful posts on social media about the glory and beauty to be found in simple things. One time Chairman of the Stone Foundation, Zach now concentrates on the day job. With a love for 60’s & 70’s funk he Dj’s a spot on a Boulder based radio station the DustyGrooves show. John spoke bravely and honestly about his relationship with stone, at the Stone Foundation’s Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Symposium in 2017. It was a talk that changed my whole attitude to the material and opened my eyes to why it is such an important material to us all. In this episode they dive deeper into their thinking and approach to their work, it’s substantive, it’s challenging…its significant.