by kuri | Dec 5, 2019 | Japan
Dandelion clock is frozen in the field. Seen on the way to yoga this morning.
by kuri | Nov 29, 2019 | Personal Reflections
The weight of loss upon me, and plenty of work deadlines to meet, I was not planning to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast. My morning yoga class had a theme of kansha, appreciation, and I arranged our yoga mats in a circle like a table. Good enough. At breakfast,...
by kuri | Nov 26, 2019 | Personal Reflections
Literally and figuratively, these have been grey days. On the literal side, we have had more clouds than sun for the past couple of weeks, including a 50 hour non-stop rain. Enough of that, please. On the figurative side, I should have believed people who said after...
by kuri | Nov 24, 2019 | Food, Japan
I don’t like persimmon very much when it is fresh, but I love dried persimmon. Today I helped Naomi and Hitomi prepare persimmons for drying. We started by picking them from the Hatanakas’ tree. Then we sat on the kitchen floor at Monaca to trim and peel...
by kuri | Nov 23, 2019 | Japan
Sawarabi is the local souvenir wholesale company; they produce Kamogawa lemon snacks, pirate-themed, seashelled chotkes for SeaWorld, and all manner of stuffed toys. Once a year, they have a bazaar to sell off samples, old stock, and random doodads. Last year, we got...
by kuri | Nov 19, 2019 | Cats
Today the cats walked more than halfway to yoga with me, and while I did sun salutations, they spend their time sunning themselves on the front porch of one of our weekend neighbors. That’s where I found them when I walked back down from class. Matsugoro...
by kuri | Nov 17, 2019 | Personal Reflections
Our morning yoga group has been meeting every day for more than two months now. We are all getting stronger and more flexible. In class, Naomi and Miako display balance and trust. After class yesterday, Suzanne and Naomi use their strength and agility to gather...
by kuri | Nov 13, 2019 | Cats
Now the cats are neutered and wandering the neighborhood free and far, I thought it was time to identify them as owned cats and not strays. It’s more like they own me, but they are wearing the collars. They are pretty dubious about the bells. There have been...
by kuri | Nov 12, 2019 | Creativity, Personal Reflections
Inspired by a photo of Dan’s, I drew a radish. I enjoyed layering the colors to get the right shade of pink.
by kuri | Nov 12, 2019 | Cats
In the morning when I leave for yoga, sometimes the cats follow me. At first it was only as far as the end of the driveway, but today they walked about halfway with me.And for the past two days, they have waited for me to finish yoga and come back. These cats act like...
