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The illustrations above and below were both done in the winter of 1983, at the age of 21, during my first year as an exchange student in Japan. I had just learned to meditate, and the sense of calm and quiet of meditation (as well as the experience of living in Japan) profoundly inf...
18 There is one exception to the general custom of giving the dolls of dead children, or the wrecks of dolls, to Kojin. Those images of the God of Calligraphy and Scholarship which are always presented as gifts to boys on the Boys’ Festival are given, when broken, to Tenjin himself, ...
If no one has told you today, you are enough. Grand plans are special and have their place but sometimes God desperately wants to pull us to Him and show us Himself in simple things. The best things in life truly are free. They may cost us a bit of time playing a silly game or h...
I don’t quite understand the timing of it and its significance has waned for me over the years, but I can appreciate the value in closing a chapter on your life, reviewing what happened in the past revolution around the sun, and anticipating the next one. ...