Last week was my xx-th birthday and was such a wonderful week. Thank you everyone for your messages, calls, gifts, and above all, your warm wishes. I feel so blessed!(above image courtesy of Marie-Claire Idee spring edition (April?)) On the evening of my birthday, my close friend invited me to a piano concert of a small scale, the music was just fantastic, and I totally enjoyed the great company there, except… my teeth started to ache, more so, with some champagne. I wrote a long paragraph about my horrible toothache experience, but I decided to summarize it in one phrase – it was the worst pain I’d ever had! It was mainly because I can’t take antibiotic medicine (allergic to it). I’ve known of…
knitting and slow life in Kyoto
Posts from the “Life is a Verb” Category
Sorry but this post is going to be very long. Please skip if you don’t feel like it.そしてごめんなさい、No Japanese. A friend of mine is in Munich, and he posted his whereabouts on Facebook. So I wrote a brief comment about my last trip to the city. By writing that single short sentence, it felt like I had lost a jewel of my memories. The jewel that had given me warmth over the years, that had been pulling me like a magnet to go back there. But it does not make sense. Sharing some memories does not degrade them. Maybe I feel that way because I am reading the book “Giver”. So, Munich. At that time I was a junior editor of landscape and urban…
Japanese Follows. 日本語は下に。 I found this book on Kelly’s blog (her suggested reading list), bought it, and later found out that Retta’s book club selected it for November. This book is my November, I am going to read one chapter per day. The author lost her father in law for cancer, only after 37 days of diagnosis. That’s when she thought about how to live each day more consciously, fully, and more memorably. Chapter 1 was about “Write to Remember”. The chapter writes:” We are all only one step away from losing the stories of our lives. I write to remember. …. It is also a strategy for learning. And for determining who and what we are — and who and what we yearn…
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