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 | 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...
