Karla has agreed to write a few things for the blog during her year in Midorikai. Here is the first installment:
Greetings!
My name is Karla and I am a student of Margie’s. I am lucky enough to follow in the footsteps of my sensei and attend the Urasenke Midorikai program beginning this April. I …
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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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Today I had the lucky opportunity of hosting a chakai for people that I had never met. However these two people had traveled many thousands of miles from North and East of here to be my guests. They were graduates of the Midorikai program in Kyoto and attended about 5 years before I had gone …
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My very good friend from Seattle has just started his year at Miorikai. For the first month he is posting nearly everyday. For those of you curious about study in Japan at the heart of the Urasenke school, he is quite articulate.
Unlike me, Philip has spent time in Japan going to University, he has …
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