The Forty-Five

Last week was billed as "Peak Fall Season" for our local Japanese garden - and it did not disappoint. Bonsai.  I have never seen t...

One of the tenets of my martial art - and, I suppose, most traditional martial arts - is the concept of practicing and passing the art down ...

Is this still Autumn, or is Winter arriving: Foggy falling leaves.

 Another local activity we got to participate in was a sampan ride. A sampan is a simple, flat bottom boat that once upon a time was ubiquit...

One of our stops on Coconut island was at a small coconut candy factory - really a home based business. The raw material: The coconuts are s...

 One of the things that I have come late to in life is the understanding of a concept that I call "Transactionalism".  My understa...

  ( Source ) When it comes right down to it, we have no control over how our actions become the memories of others - as the saying goes, you...