Japanna

14/03/2022

Beautiful vistas after work walks

09/03/2022

Bordertown boats

06/03/2022

Friday night sky

31/01/2022

Good morning February!

13/03/2021

Sunshine and happiness ...

27/02/2021

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903.

21/02/2021

Sometimes in the winds of change we find our greatest direction.

20/02/2021

18/02/2021

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.” Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1923)

08/02/2021

Aaaagh covid /// you’ve done it again!

Tokyo and ten other prefectures have been put under a second state of emergency to cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.

08/02/2021

We project our thoughts and beliefs and they return to us as our experience. —David Bingham

23/01/2021

This chapter 2020 isn’t the end of your story, your life, your business, your career or YOU; this chapter 2021 is about beginning and emerging as something more spectacular and wonderful in spirit - YOU.

15/01/2021

It’s not looking too hopeful for 2021. However we will return to Japan someday — and we will appreciate everything we’ve missed with so much more reverence. Keep the faith my furusato friends ..

15/01/2021

In their old age, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Joachim and Anna of separately, telling them that God had heard their prayers and that they would give birth to a daughter, Mary. Then St. Anna conceived by her husband and after nine months bore a daughter blessed by God and by all generations of men: the Most-holy Virgin Mary

The origins of a name : biblical one ... this building is tucked away on the Gold Coast ! I came across it today. How wonderful!

12/01/2021

Everyone is feeling it - look at Kyoto without the crowds!!!!
and also look at the beautiful Japanese people so quietly and elegantly waiting for visitors to return - all ages, young and old and so respectful.

While Kyoto once struggled with over tourism, it has been comparatively empty for some time now. Today we go to Kyoto and speak to some of the local Japanese...

10/01/2021

Cannot wait to say those words - tadaima! and hear the response - Okaerinasai!!!! Such a longing to see the world boiled down to reconnecting with my favourite land ......🎎

One day it will happen - we will go to Japan with our vaccine and paperwork and enjoy our leisure trip - when we are all ready globally I will be the first one to book tickets and take off to Japan - who is with me? 😁😂😍

04/01/2021

We seek happiness in experience after experience, relationship after relationship, therapy after therapy, workshop after workshop — even ‘spiritual’ ones, which sound so promising but never address the root cause of suffering: ignorance of our true nature.

28/12/2020

That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. Charles de Lint. (b.1951) Writer and Celtic Folk Musician