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The Best of Intentions
When Oshiki peninsula was destroyed by the tsunami, out went the unsightly stuff as well. No billboards anywhere. No neon signs. Nothing to disturb the
When Volunteers Go to Oshika
Our host Caroline Pover is brilliant at slipping into the Oshika Time Zone and in the coldest months of the year gets a superhuman amount
Who Really Benefits from Acts of Kindness
Montana King Ramsey put it this way. When you’re making music, you’re reaching inside to discover yourself. When you’re making art you’re finding out who
When Art Encourages Accidents
When Art Encourages Accidents. . . This is a very strange topic, one that I’d rather not discuss, especially since it strikes so close to
The Art of Collaboration
The Art of Collaboration . . . For details of the Art of Collaboration scheduled in Tokyo for Sunday March 3rd see: https://www.facebook.com/events/159716720847781/ His question
Genesis Art Workshops travel to Tsunami-hit Oshiki
A proposal to offer a Genesis collage workshop in one of the hardhit tsunami-destroyed towns in Miyage prefecture (Oshiki) has been accepted! The theme will
The Art of Taking a Weekly Rest
I’ve begun celebrating the Sabbath here in Tokyo as a complete day of rest. No television. No phone calls. No computers, no Kindle or iphones
Inner Peace
What is the world coming to? Lego Corporation has jumped on the card-production band wagon and created its own ‘spiritual’ line of cards. They arrived
The Money Crunch
I’m writing this post in response to reading a post by a writer who is deeply upset that she can no longer pay the rent
Signposts on the Journey of Life
The art on this Lesley College application form stunned me — as I opened up this page just hours after Shoko Yatabe painted this beautiful
When the Drums Beat On
During a peaceful day of painting with Shoko Yatabe, we were so focused on making these abstract mandalalike patterns that it never occurred to us
Montana’s Way of Drumming
Montana King Ramsey–my son’s drumming teacher here in Tokyo, was telling us today how he taught himself the drums. He was playing bongos in Philadelphia
The front and the back of the creative process
In front of our eyes the world stretches out as much as we allow it in. When we are leading myopic lives, attached to our
The First Human Genesis Cards
Meet Melisa Eugenio, the first human Genesis Card. Melisa and I go back to 1994, when we both were teaching at Gakushuin, the elite high
In praise of photography
How cheap has photography become? So cheap that we don’t even have to pause and breath before snapping. We don’t have to frame, compose, breath
The Art of Self-Introduction
When meeting people for the first time do you get nervous? Do you feel like your whole life is being reduced to a location, a