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Garden art
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Plums 2020
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On shortages & what we need
While the medical world needs more personal protection equipment (PPE) like masks and gloves and surgical gowns to work safely treating the Covid-19 patients, the rest of us are seeing shortages, too. Panic buying wiped out all the toilet paper and disinfectant products pretty much around the world. Here it happened in mid-March, when there…
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Getting a-feared
Up ’til now, the Covid-19 pandemic has stressed me out mostly with data and graphs (damned lies and statistics) that can’t possibly be true because of under-testing, under-reporting, and the chaos of collecting data in-the-moment. I’ve been self-isolating for the sake of other people and the medical system’s capacity to treat its patients. For my…
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Socially Distant 54
Despite a cold rainy day in self-quarantine, I enjoyed this birthday. I made a sponge cake and used my oven’s Auto 13 mode to bake it. Usually the oven fails at baking tasks but this cake turned out perfectly. I guess I will be switching over to sponge cakes on automatic baking mode. In the…
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Yoga via Zoom
I have enjoyed teaching yoga daily locally since the typhoon, and I didn’t want my self-quarantine to stop me from moving and sharing with others. I had no idea that it would bring together so many people. This morning it was me and 14 others! The “usual suspects” of our daily classes log in from…
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Solitary Hanami Hike
We took advantage of a beautiful day to go on a hike where nobody else was likely to be – up the typhoon damaged back train to Iyogatake’s cherry blossom area. Getting up the mountain was an interesting puzzle of over, under, and around the fallen trees. Our destination had been damaged by landslides, but…
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Free Art
I might not be going anywhere, but I can still do things. From yesterday ’til today, I’ve drawn 18 little artworks on slabs of wood, drilled them, strung them with twine, and hung them on a tree in the yard that overhangs the road so people can stay far away, but still get a freebie.…
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Locking down at home til April 5th
I feel like I’ve been an irresponsible citizen by ignoring the COVID-19 drama while hosting a foreign visitor and then taking a 300 km road trip to fulfill a promise to help a friend. Being out in a city filled with people, away from our sparsely populated rural paradise, I felt pretty vulnerable. Even though…
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Dreamers & Doers Journal
This is project from 2014 that got lost in the ether when the star-tink website closed, but it is time to bring it back. Half the battle in creativity is acting on your ideas. The other half is having ideas! The Dreamers and Doers journal is a workbook that alternates pages of creative prompts with…
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