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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Sep 204 min
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.”...
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Rebecca Otowa
Sep 94 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Aug 125 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Jul 174 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Jun 215 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
May 285 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
May 15 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Apr 85 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Mar 215 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Feb 55 min
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...
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Rebecca Otowa
Jan 233 min
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,...
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Rebecca Otowa
Dec 20, 20234 min
EXPERIENCING EARWORMS
(It will be the Winter Solstice in a few days, and after that the Ferris wheel of the seasons will start going up again, it will get...
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Rebecca Otowa
Nov 22, 20235 min
GRAVITY
November 20, 2023 (Caveat: I don’t pretend to be any kind if expert on physics, theoretical or otherwise. The ideas in this blog arise...
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Rebecca Otowa
Oct 27, 20235 min
I’m Going to Give you a Damn Good Thrashing
Recently I read an interesting excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth. Basically, he said that when you get older, your body...
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Rebecca Otowa
Oct 2, 20235 min
THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELER
My second son’s first word, as a toddler, was “go”. He used to run to my car, pull on the door handle, and say “Go! Go!” He is now almost...
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Rebecca Otowa
Aug 25, 20235 min
GOODBYE TO SUMMER
(Grossness alert: Since this post is largely about what a rural middle-aged female feels in summer, there will be a bit of grossness here...
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Rebecca Otowa
Jul 25, 20234 min
THE BELOVED VOICE
(The accompanying photo shows part of a picture I made several years ago depicting the notes of my wind chimes.) Recently I went away for...
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Rebecca Otowa
Jul 3, 20234 min
BEING SORRY
Hello, everyone, and apologies for being late to wish everyone a happy Solstice. This year I was in Australia for the winter solstice. In...
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Rebecca Otowa
May 14, 20234 min
IN PRAISE OF STONES
Recently I had a chance to read an interesting essay entitled “The Stones of Kyoto”. Okay, I thought, this will be about famous stones in...
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