by kuri | Jan 1, 2021 | Personal Reflections
明けましておめでとうございます！今年も宜しくお願いします。 Happy New Year!
by kuri | Dec 31, 2020 | Personal Reflections
Dystopia from our safe haven. Pandemic realigned me with art, teaching, and daily yoga practice via Zoom. Deeply mourned Futatsuyama, Isabella Bird, and Foreground Cat. 2019: All shall be well but I’m overwhelmed with love and loss. Mom’s with my ghostly siblings and...
by kuri | Dec 28, 2020 | Japan, Personal Reflections, The Wider World
I am feeling unsettled. I have been getting lax with precautions and it’s time to tighten back down. On Christmas day, Tod & I drove north to suburbia and enjoyed lunch in a shopping mall. We wanted a change of scenery and to mark the holiday, but in the...
by kuri | Dec 28, 2020 | Personal Reflections
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this post is over 48,000 words. A novella. I’ve collected one photo per month of 2020 in four categories. I tried to do a collage of cats, but it was too emotionally painful to look at all the photos and I stopped. ...
by kuri | Dec 26, 2020 | Personal Reflections
Maura presides over the decor This year, I was able to release all expectations for Christmas. I bought gifts from my family and friends’ small businesses, baked some cookies to share with neighbors, decorated my office for Zoom calls, listened to Christmas...
by kuri | Dec 22, 2020 | Cats
In memory of Isabella Bird April 2, 2019 – December 21, 2020 Isabella Bird didn’t have a name when she was born. 3rd in the litter and the only calico, we called her #3 Calico until we understood her personality. Her namesake, Isabella Bird, was an intrepid...
by kuri | Nov 7, 2020 | Personal Reflections, The Wider World
Yoga is a big part of my life, though I don’t write about it much here. I’ve been leading a daily morning yoga class for more than a year – first in person after the big 2019 typhoon and then on Zoom after the start of the 2020 pandemic. Some days I...
by kuri | Oct 4, 2020 | Cats
Poor Fritter got in a scuffle and a small wound grew abscessed in after couple of days. We took him to the vet and they had to do surgery. So for the last ten days, he has been wearing an Elizabeth collar. He was so freaked out at first that he could only walk...
by kuri | Sep 8, 2020 | Cats, Personal Reflections
2 April 2019 – 8 Sep 2020 I am grieved to report that I found Futatsuyama on the side of the road this morning. He had been hit by a car and crossed the rainbow bridge without me knowing. We buried him next to Foreground Cat. I write this through tears....
by kuri | Aug 1, 2020 | Creativity, Household, On the Net, Personal Reflections
We all want to have a fun and happy summer but with the coronavirus running rampant, a trip to a distant tropical island in southeast Asia is not on the calendar. It’s time for a staycation to fake the experience at home. Start off by thinking about the things...
