I have been reviewing the early entries of this blog, some were written more than eight years ago. I am surprised at how they have held up and the entries are as relevant today as they were when they were written years ago.
I have also been looking at the blog statistics. Some of these …
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I was recently talking with a friend who was working on a project for work. Her heart was not in it and she was just putting in the minimal effort, which made the project drag out. Every day she would go to work and there would be the project waiting for her. I asked her …
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I look back on my time at Midorikai and I thought about what I had learned there. Some of the lessons I learned there have nothing to do with tea and yet they have everything to with tea and life. I am still striving to put these into practice every single day.
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I recently returned from a visit to Kyoto. It has been many, many years since I last visited there. My husband went with me, and together we explored the city. I wondered how much it had changed, he discovered this charming city for the first time.
We ate very well including this cheap Japanese breakfastThe …
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I think I had been studying for about 3 years when I thought I would like to acquire my first teabowl. In those days there was not the internet nor eBay to purchase utensils. So we had to ask someone to buy it for us in Japan or find some other way of acquiring utensils. …
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