Thanks to Horse-friend and Dharma-brother Josh Bartok, who just sent this fascinating new graticon [kind of like an emoticon, expressing gratitude in a Buddhist sort of way]:

m(_ _)m
it’s described on urbandictionary.com thusly:

“Basically, it’s a person bowing! The two M’s are the hands of the  person, the _’s are the person’s eyes, and the ()’s are the sides of the person’s head.”

Kinda cool. (In as much as any emoticon can be cool.)

JB was also the one who turned us on to this graticon, the simple:
()
[Parentheses, cupped and facing each other, to simplize hands in gassho.]

Thanks as always, Josh.