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Year of the Sheep
Wishing you and yours a prosperous and enjoyable new year.
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25 Words
Our 25th anniversary. Eyes opened in Ireland and India to a new life together. More adventures, independence, inventiveness, alliances. Yes, yes! The ayes have it. Here are all the 25 word summaries since I started this annual project in 2001: 2013 Running away to the circus confused me. Spent ten months wondering “What next?” Tried…
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Explore 2015
Explore is my guide word for 2015 Choosing a word this year was tough. We are about to embark on some changes in our lives, and taking into account those plans & dreams, I ended up with over 50 candidate words. I want a word to inspire me, a theme that supports my life but…
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Christmas 2014
Another year, another Christmas. Tod treated me to a fancy lunch at JIMI in Ginza where we ate 50 different vegetables in 6 courses. Then we enjoyed shopping for art supplies at Itoya. The floor of colored pencils had us enraptured for about half and hour, but we didn’t buy any! We came home and…
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Powerless
“What would it be like if we had no electricity?” I asked at the dinner table when I was 12 or so. I’d just finished reading some history or science fiction book that had sparked the idea. We had an interesting discussion and Dad agreed that we could try turning off the power to the…
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Girl in the Pines
Tod has a nose for scent. He always has. He stops to smell flowers, he lights incense, and he lately collects and wears perfume. He has a lot of bottles now and seeks out the best and more rare items. It is one area in his life where he indulges himself. He makes almost every…
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Hillhacks (in Summary)
Tod & I just returned from Hillhacks, a tech conference for “hacking and making” in the Himalayas. It was an incredible experience for both of us. Dreams came true, doors opened, and plans formed. But I am getting ahead of the story. Ironically, the one thing that didn’t happen on this trip is what took…
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25 Years of Marriage
To mark our silver anniversary, we considered having a fancy party with our friends in Japan and renewing our vows or doing something large and public. But then it dawned on us that we didn’t do that for the marriage in the first place. Why should we do it now? It’s really not our style…
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Me, the Sea, and the Sunrise
One of the quiet delights of camping on Niijima is a morning walk to the beach. This year, I saw several sunrises emerging blood red from the ocean. For some of them I was busy hooping while Rob filmed me for our video project. Sunrise. I am sitting atop a 4 meter high koga stone…
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Hanami 2014
Rob & I get together for a hanami lunch in the Ayoama Bochi every year. Today was the day. It was beautifully mild and our hilltop picnic spot was eye-level with the blossoms. We were showered with petal snow as the winds blew clouds in. The rains begin tonight, so I think Tokyo’s hanami season…
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