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THE GROUP AS A SOCIAL ENGINE
Sorry to be so late in posting this blog! I have been busy with other stuff recently and didn’t feel like adding “write blog” to the list...
Rebecca Otowa
May 95 min read
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“ZEN AND THE ART OF WEEDING” REVISITED
(The photo shows a front path lined with vetch, Vicia sativa (karasu endo) which I try to keep to a minimum, although I have heard this...
Rebecca Otowa
Mar 295 min read
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SMALL MOVES
This title comes from one of my favorite movies, Contact , starring Jodie Foster as a scientist who discovers alien intelligence. Her...
Rebecca Otowa
Mar 105 min read
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WHY NINETY DEGREES?
I’ve been looking around at my world recently. It’s really too cold to do anything else, although there is a lot to do both inside and...
Rebecca Otowa
Feb 64 min read
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GRANDMOTHERLY WISDOM – A Solstice Writing
Very happy Winter Solstice to you! Although it will remain cold for awhile longer, we are definitely already on the upswing as far as...
Rebecca Otowa
Dec 24, 20245 min read
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WHEN ONE GOES, THEY ALL GO
Recently I listened to a podcast in which they talked about traditional Japanese crafts, which are swiftly disappearing. He mentioned...
Rebecca Otowa
Dec 15, 20245 min read
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DEALING WITH WHAT’S BROKEN
(The picture is a painting I did around 2016 of a plate I bought in England which subsequently got broken. The background is the kitchen...
Rebecca Otowa
Nov 21, 20245 min read
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CONCENTRATION – PART I TOPOLOGY
Picture shows where I usually get up and down from my kitchen (right) and bath (upper left) showing steps. Black tile area is a shoe...
Rebecca Otowa
Oct 24, 20245 min read
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THOUGHTS AFTER AN INJURY
(The photo shows the scene of the accident, a little bit cleaned up since then.) Last Monday morning I was working in a corner of our...
Rebecca Otowa
Oct 9, 20244 min read
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THIS TOO SHALL PASS
Equinox Sept. 20, 2024 The title of this blog is also my favorite slogan, but recently I’ve taken to adding, “But you must be patient.”...
Rebecca Otowa
Sep 20, 20244 min read
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THUDS AND THUMPS
When I was younger, I thought that “sleeping through the night” was the norm, and if you couldn’t do it for some reason, there was a...
Rebecca Otowa
Sep 9, 20244 min read
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TWO WORLDS AT ONCE
(Please forgive the holes in the following two-bit explanation of Buddhist thought. It is mine, culled from various sets of ideas and...
Rebecca Otowa
Aug 12, 20245 min read
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HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR SUMMER
This is a question recently posed to my English class, which mostly consists of ladies approaching my own age, so I thought the answers...
Rebecca Otowa
Jul 17, 20244 min read
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SUDDENLY I REALIZED…
June 20, 2024 (Solstice) (This is a summer solstice post, when the day is the longest of all the year. At present I am reading “The World...
Rebecca Otowa
Jun 21, 20245 min read
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THE DISCONNECT
Morgan Spurlock is dead. The iconic critic of fast food and capitalism, activist, and promotor of healthy living in books and movies has...
Rebecca Otowa
May 28, 20245 min read
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HOW IRONICAL IS THAT?
Recently some things about life in general have struck me as funny because they are so ironical. See what you think. 1) There is an app...
Rebecca Otowa
May 1, 20245 min read
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TWO KINDS OF FOLK SONGS
One of the few things I like about travel (as I get older, I increasingly don’t cotton to the uncomfortable aspects of it) is the...
Rebecca Otowa
Apr 8, 20245 min read
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MY OWN IDEAS (Inspired by a conversation with an old friend) ~ Spring Equinox
(The photo shows "The Transformer", painted in 2016.) This time I’d like to write about what I, personally, think about life and death in...
Rebecca Otowa
Mar 21, 20245 min read
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WHAT’S IT LIKE AT THE TOP?
(The picture is an original watercolor painting by me called “The Pilgrim”, 2013.) Recently I had to ponder a very important issue, which...
Rebecca Otowa
Feb 5, 20245 min read
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DRAGON YEAR
(The picture shows a detail of what is believed to be the Japanese visual master Hokusai’s last work, Dragon Flying over Mt. Fuji,...
Rebecca Otowa
Jan 23, 20243 min read
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