This week I had wanted to discuss more about Bushido but things kind of went awry. So that will be next week ( Read more... )

I was raised by my grandparents but was also able to maintain a good relationship with my mother growing up. We had a very close family. But it seems since grandDAD passed away last year, that our family has grown apart. They went their way and I went mine. Still, grandma is the most important person to me, but sometimes I can't help but feel like ( Read more... )

Combine learning with something you love.That is the lesson of the day ( Read more... )

The wheels of time move slowly, sometimes so slowly that it seems no time has passed at all. Other times it seems as if years have passed in the blink of an eye ( Read more... )

So another weekend has come to an end ( Read more... )

Short entry will be short today because in the midst of preparing for work, I'm also trying to recover from another sleepless night ( Read more... )

In the wake of the fire, there have been many sleepless nights. Some of them due to the nightmares and paranoia, others due mostly in part to efforts designed to make me forget about the nightmares in paranoia. Some nights I stay up until the wee, wee hours of the morning with a very close friend who lives in Arizona, and is thus, three hours ( Read more... )

Again I must ask your forgiveness ( Read more... )

Many apologies for leaving you for three days without a word ( Read more... )

The Karma of Past Lives:

I slept in the past,
that will never come back,
as though it was the present.
Around my pillow in my dreams
the perfume of orange blossoms floated,
like the fragrance of the sleeves
of the man who is gone.
- Princess Shikishi (13th century)Okita Sōji ( Read more... )