So it goes, the festive season passes yet calendar stays busy with the usual sorts of things. Yesterday included returning […]
Diary: Starting off 2020 with Coffee and Classes etc. Read Post »
Well hello 2020. Let’s enjoy. Step 1 (or 2) #japanlife
Diary: New Year’s Morning + Day / Reiwa 2, Let’s Enjoy! Read Post »
Off to the shrine on New Year’s morning, in this case to a smallish local shrine called 天津神社北側参道 / Achi
Diary: New Year’s Day Reiwa 2, Shrine Visit Read Post »
While dispatches and re-caps of various outings and events exist elsewhere in this archive, life is so wonderful right now
Diary: Autumn Miscellany / coffee, ramen, sandwiches, Godzilla, peach tree, ikebana… Read Post »
After all the friends came and went from the wedding festivities in April (including a hospital stay by one intrepid
While me and Ryoko’s wedding will be a litttlllle bit unique, there are some very traditional aspects to our 3-day
Munetada Shinto Shrine Primer / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki Read Post »
Shinto wedding vow, Read by Dave and Ryoko in Unison at Munetade Jinjya (shrine), April 20, 2019 Phoneticized from Japanese
Shinto Wedding Vow / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki Read Post »
Shinto shrine employs extra Gods To bless endless school kid trips And impending foreign throngs
Shinto shrine employs… / Shinkonryoko Ramble Read Post »
Note: what follows is the information as was printed upon a sheet which was included in the gift bags as
Thanks to Vendors and Helpers / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki Read Post »
Indeed, I love connecting communities and so very happy 25 people (!) foreign dignitaries are coming to celebrate the wedding
Connecting Communities / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki Read Post »
This dispatch shares the logistics of getting to and fro various important locations for the wedding festivities, specifically: Munetade Shrine,
Japan: Going Places in Okayama: Shrine, Resto, Farm (from #DRO420 kekkonshiki) Read Post »
