exhilirating! I could visualize myself sitting on the end of the dock on Little Whaley Lake in NY in Pawling: This is a thousand acre parcel I have taken June and Quint to see. Your writing transported me to this location. I would each reader responds to your work in his or her individual way and this was my way. Maybe someday we'll go there and we can see if my visualization matches your imagination. Thank you

SEB,
THIS IS YOUR BEST EVER. YOU MOVED VERY GRACEFULLY TO A POIGNANT LIFE LESSON. THE WORK HAS REAL MOMENTUM AND IT DOESN'T LET YOU DOWN. THE VALUE OF THE STONE IS IN ITS PERFORMANCE. WHEN IT HAS PERFORMED, IT DISAPPEARS (LIKE EVERYTHING IN NATURE). THE BEAUTY AND SIGNIFICANCE IS BEING AWARE OF AND PARTICIPATING IN THAT PERFORMANCE. THE ONLY THING BETTER IS HAVING SOME SHARE IT WITH YOU WHO CAN ALSO APPRECIATE IT.
BRAVO! YOUR DESCRIPTIONS ARE ALSO WONDERFUL: THE "COOL" OF THE LAKE.
THE CHARACTER OF GRANT (GRANDFATHER?) ALSO RINGS TRUE. HIS ""CONTENTMENT" WITH HIS GRANDSON"S SPIRIT, AS WELL AS HIS IDENTIFICATION WITH HIM, IS HEARTWARMING.
NOW COMMENTS:
P1: "SO, HE DECIDED" WOULD BE BETTER AS SIMPLY: "HE DECIDED"
P3: NO COMMA AFTER"ANYHOW"
ALSO, "RACING TO DECISION" SOUNDS AWKWARD. A DECISION IS QUICK AND FINAL, RACING IMPLIES PROCESS. HOW ABOUT "HIS MIND RACING WITH SPECULATION?"
P4: "ROUGH THE HEAVY RAINS" SHOULD BE "ROUGH HEAVY RAINS"
"CRASH" SOUNDS TOO NOISY FOR STONES AND BODIES. HOW ABOUT "THUD"?
P12: ENOUGH ROPE FOR HIS PLAN" NOT "WHAT HIS PLAN"
HOW ABOUT "MATERIALS" INSTEAD OF "INGREDIENTS". DOESN'T "INGREDIENT" IMPLY BLENDING INTO A MIX AS OPPOSED TO STRUCTURE MADE OF SEPARATE MATERIALS?
P16: INSTEAD OF "SO TO MAKE" SHOULD BE "TO MAKE" UNLESS YOU ARE GETTING A MARK TWAIN DIALECT IN THERE. THEN IT MIGHT BE "SO'S TO MAKE" HOWEVER, THE NARRATOR DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE THE DIALECT THE CHARACTERS HAVE AND I THINK IT IS GOOD THE WAY IT IS. I WOULD LEAVE OUT THE LAST SENTENCE IN THE PARAGRAH ("THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH ...) IT LEAVES YOU ANTCIPATING MORE DESCRIPTION OF THIS PERIOD OF TIME WHICH DOES NOT SEEM NECESSARY.
"HE WAS BORED MOMENTARILY" IS TOO FLOURISHY. JUST SAY "FOR A MOMENT, HE WAS BORED."
BRAVO!