Japan, We Love You !!!

Japan we love you:

Japan, we love you with all your wooden machiya houses, temples and lace covered taxi seats with passenger doors that open and close automatically. We love your gentle bowing as you back away, your kimonos, and your tea ceremonies.

Japan, we love your cleanliness and your Shinto nature worship always searching for inner peace with your ponds, water fountains, Zen maze gardens and clean river waters.

Kyoto, we love your lantern lit alleys, your pleasing geishas darting in and out of low framed doors and the sounds of clicky- clack wooden flip flops against the clean sidewalks shared with bicycles. Speaking of bikes, we love your thousands of bikes everywhere, noticing that none are locked because no one steals them. Imagine, living in a city were there is a sense of security and safety.

First meditation practice

Nanci attended her first meditation training. She sat knees crossed for over an hour with a gentel monk as she emptied her mind. Later they shared words of wisdom and a communion of agreements.

We love holding your warm tea cups in our palms hoping the heat will heal our arthritic hands and equally we love balancing your little warm sake cups between our fingers sipping your hot rice wine.

Japan we like your food. We were not sure half the time what we were eating, but it all tasted good except we didn’t’ like your shark fin mush, or whatever that stuff was in the dark brown broth, but we love your tiny little mystery courses served ever so pretty on hand painted plates with cute little flowers and lotus root soup.

Make like a sushi chef.

Make like a sushi chef…one picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a few thousand words. We love your sushi and had so much fun learning to prepare it