(a list of) “Things to Look Forward To”
Feeling a bit blue with a broken foot, and some other mental health and physical health challenges – like I […]
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Downtown + West End Vancouver and Stanley Park / #BCInvasion flashback, part 2
Moving north across the Fraser river to downtown/West End, Vancouver, settling into a kitchenette hotel for several days, enjoying tea ceremonies, hotel picnics, coffee times and pleasant times with friends, plus our initial foray into Stanley Park.
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Festive Omnibus Annotations (church, shrine, tea, gardens, fire, poems, snaps)
So many things to tell you but I’ll scribble in Postcards, 1 by 1 because each of you deserves custom-made
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Post’d: Tea & Ink + metaphors of knives & telegrams
The important part is to enjoy tea {and the tools} + Bound for the post office forthwith (tomorrow is a
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: tea ceremony (bonus card) / 8.23
Ichiro: card (bonus) “tea ceremony” / 8.23 #IchiroOlson / card x of series #io Ichiro’s first tea ceremony lesson with
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: New Year Tea Ceremony at Matsuka-sensei’s house
Studying tea ceremony… I’m not sure if studying is the right word, maybe practicing, refining or just enjoying… with a
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Personal Musings
Diary: Christmas Concert with Mae Maes and Friends
On Dec. 22nd at a store in Tsudaka, Okayama, Ryoko and her Mae Maes bandmates held a Christmas concert with
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary / Museum: Tea ceremony, PM Inukai house + grave & trains plus citrus fruits
One of these two is a former Prime Minister who was assassinated while his house guest Charlie Chaplin (also allegedly
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Autumn Miscellany / coffee, ramen, sandwiches, Godzilla, peach tree, ikebana…
While dispatches and re-caps of various outings and events exist elsewhere in this archive, life is so wonderful right now
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Setouchi Out n About / community arts festival with Mae Maes
I tagged along with Ryoko and her Mae Maes band for a gig in Setouchi at a community centre. There
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Kurashiki / handmade market with Mae Maes + pet show
Ryoko’s band Mae Maes had a performance lined up at a handmade goods market fair at a convention centre type
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Elsewhere Scenes, Personal Musings
Tea Ceremony in Sketches
My darling Ryoko studies Japanese tea ceremony with a group of others from Okayama and Kurashiki. Recently i was invited
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