Reading the room is something stand up comics are intimately familiar with. The difference between killing it and dying out there are vastly different. Jokes that get the biggest laugh with one audience may fall flat with another. How to handle a heckler and make them a part of your act is an art form …
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Hakone Daichakai
I was fortunate enough this year to attend the Hakone Daichakai held at the Hakone Gardens near San Jose, California this year. The Hakone gardens were so beautiful and the weather was perfect. It was so lovely to see so many people in kimono (both men and women).
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Preparing for this moment
Last week I was in Hood River, Oregon at the Columbia Center for the Arts for a presentation on Meditations on the Way of Tea. It was a beautiful venue in downtown Hood River, within sight of the majestic Columbia River. As part of the month long activities for La Lluvia/The Rain art exhibition, it …
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Kids and the way of tea
I recently presented chanoyu to a group of third graders, that is 8 and 9 year olds at their classroom in Portland. I had them pretend that they were Japanese students and they all stood up and said “Ohaiyo gozimasu, sensei” to their teacher, and they were very attentive and nearly silent during the 30 …
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