‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts […] there’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue
Tag: nature
Over and Out (Summer Camp, Week 5)
So here we are. I’m through the summer adventure, out the other side of the Kan-Etsu Tunnel*, blinking in the sunlight and wondering what to
Eight Kids You Meet at Summer Camp (Week 3)
Each camper is unique. Each child comes to summer camp with their own set of experiences, their own family situations, their own expectations, their own
Bugcatcher Generals (Summer Camp, Week 1)
Is there a word for this kind of exhaustion? The kind that seeps into your bones and makes you speak in tongue-tied. I don’t
A Song of Wind and Drizzle
Listen, I’m not saying the ancients were right about Daisen. Despite all the age-old warnings, I doubt that Kagutsuchi, Shinto god of fire, himself dwells
The Bittersweetness of Things
‘If the cherry blossoms lasted six months, nobody would love them’. This sentence1 lies close to the heart of Japanese culture. Right now, the cherry
The Worlds Outside 