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Happy New Year
Wishing you a lucky 2014. 明けましておめでとう！
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25 Words
Running away to the circus confused me. Spent ten months wondering “What next?” Tried resting, contests, midwifery – not my things. Travel, teaching, performance? Yes. Circus. Here are all the 25 word summaries since I started this annual project in 2001: 2012Hooping took me up to Tohoku, down to Niijima, and around the world on…
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Develop 2014
Develop is my guide word for 2014. I am excited about this one. It sings of continuation, growth, progress, and new ideas but without demanding perfection. I might develop an act, develop my skills, develop photos, develop the community, develop some software, develop a passion, develop a plan. I also like it because the longer…
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Christmas 2013
Such a nice holiday. I made dinner. Tod brought champagne. Gifts appeared from all over the planet. We feasted and festivated all evening. The Zous did the decorating. They gilded peanuts, made felt elephant banners and ornaments, and had a lot of fun with thumbtacks. Noteworthy gifts: sheepskin slippers from Tod and elephant pyjamas from…
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Christmas Afternoon
It is mid-afternoon on Christmas Day and I am counting down the hours until Tod arrives home from work and we celebrate the holiday with dinner and gifts. Dinner is in the oven. I suspect that roasted pork was a poor choice; sauerkraut isn’t the most festive of scents. Rather than sugarplums, I envision post-war…
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Honey Gingerbread Cookies
When we were travelling in Prague and Poland at Christmas a few years back, we fell in love with lebkuchen and pirniki, German and Polish gingerbreads. They are hard to find in Tokyo, so this year I decided to try making some myself. There is a bewildering variety of European gingerbread so settling on a…
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Holiday crafting
Inspired by an upscale designer set of blocks, I made my own for the festive season. They are a lot of fun to arrange and rearrange whenever I like. Three side are pictures: the Christmas elephant, pine trees, and candles. Three side are letters that spell out joy peace love; fun holidays!; and happy new…
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Protest in Japan
Today I went to the Diet to show my disapproval of the National Secrets bill. It’s a terrible law that would choke press freedom, allow the government to cover up anything in the name of national security, turn any issue into a matter of secret record, and even make demonstrations illegal. Bad, bad, bad. 80%…
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Couldn’t Drag Me Away
Group Shapeshifting workshop at Florida Flow Fest We’re just returned from three weeks of travel in the US. The first week was in Florida where I taught two workshops at Florida Flow Fest. It was a delightful festival with lots to learn and plenty of people to meet. I made some nice connections there and…
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Trashing Memories
Long-time readers know that I am a fiend for getting rid of things. This week I took a very big step and did something truly scary. I tossed out a ton of my old creative projects. It was one of the hardest things to do and I’ve been avoiding it forever. I junked all my…
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