daily life/art/culture/justice and how they merge, clash, & play inside my northern state of mind (set in Hokkaido and Minnesota)
Last week I spent three days at the foot of Daisetsu-san, the highest mountain in Hokkaido, for an intensive English learning camp with some of our students. One afternoon during a break I trekked up the road, passing only the occasional cross-country skiier. The snow began to fall in thick flakes, coating every adhesive part […]
T. composed a 6-minute song all by himself two days ago. It is his first independently composed song, though he has sung backup on other songs of my husband’s. A friend emailed me some info on throat-singers from Tuva (an independent area in the Tunna Mountains of southern Siberia and northwestern Mongolia) today, and reading […]
Okay, everyone, here is an actual documented photo (courtesy of my husband’s cell phone, hence a bit fuzzy) that we have two actual foxes as our downstairs neighbors. One was reclining atop the bicycle shed, while this one was nosing about the snowy field. My husband tossed him some bread, and he jogged over to […]