What is in your cup?

[dreams]

Nice photos Stitchawl. I love how it looks so clean with the raked sand. Is there a ritual for the sand?

water in my cup and waiting for dinner.

[amward]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

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. That makes it easier for me to carry when on my motorcycle. No more bungee cords trying to keep it in place.

Stitchawl

All I can think of now is Arlo Guthrie and the motor cycle song!

[amward]

Thanks for the kind words folks, still no answers on what happened, but it looks as if it is murder.

[Stitchawl]

Got all my chores done and am sitting back with a big, big mug of Keemun tea!

Originally Posted by dreams

Nice photos Stitchawl. I love how it looks so clean with the raked sand. Is there a ritual for the sand?

Deams, in Japan there is a ritual for EVERYTHING including entering and leaving the toilet! (You have to change your 'indoor slippers' to 'toilet slippers,') Every day one of the monks has the task of raking it all smooth, then re-raking the design. And not only 'this' design... Each garden might have its own, and there may be several different stone gardens inside a temple. Here is another one just on the other side of the wall from the first one!!

(When you study to be a Monk, you don't 'graduate' until you can walk across the garden and not leave any footprints... )

Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by amward

All I can think of now is Arlo Guthrie and the motor cycle song!

I don't want a nickle... Just wanna ride my mo..tor...cickle...

I won't drive a car unless I absolutely have to due to carrying constraints, etc. There is no pleasure in it at all for me. Four wheels move the body but two wheels moves the soul.

Originally Posted by amward

Thanks for the kind words folks, still no answers on what happened, but it looks as if it is murder.

That really is so tragic, Anne. Let's hope that at least the police can catch the SOB who did it.


Stitchawl

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Hmmmmm.... That's got me wondering..... if a rose is beautiful, can it be more beautiful? Or is 'beautiful' the ultimate?

Although a thing that is beautiful is full of beauty, I think that one thing can be more beautiful than another, as it may have a greater capacity for beauty. For instance, a beautiful rose might have more beauty than a beautiful turkey. To find out, just measure them in Helens* and see which is comes higher on the scale.

Coke Zero in my cup.


*Helen: The SI unit of beauty. One milliHelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

*Helen: The SI unit of beauty. One milliHelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

That's brilliant!!
I have never heard of the SI before this. What a wonderful convention!


Stitchawl

[orlok]

Originally Posted by amward

Thanks for the kind words folks, still no answers on what happened, but it looks as if it is murder.

That somehow makes it worse. I echo Stichawl's sentiments and hope they bring whoever is responsible to justice quickly.

[orlok]

Your pictures are making me insanely jealous, Stitchawl. Just need to win the lottery and I'll be over there like a shot.

Black decaff in my cup.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

That's brilliant!!
I have never heard of the SI before this. What a wonderful convention!

Umm... just in case, I should mention that the Helen is not an official SI unit.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by orlok

Your pictures are making me insanely jealous, Stitchawl. Just need to win the lottery and I'll be over there like a shot.

Keep in mind that I only take photos of the pretty places. The rest looks just like London, New York, or Mexico City... I'm sure the countryside in your area is just a lovely, only it's too familiar to you to notice.

Proust said; "The voyage of discovery is not in traveling to new lands, but in seeing with new eyes."


Stitchawl

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Keep in mind that I only take photos of the pretty places. The rest looks just like London, New York, or Mexico City... I'm sure the countryside in your area is just a lovely, only it's too familiar to you to notice.

Proust said; "The voyage of discovery is not in traveling to new lands, but in seeing with new eyes."


Stitchawl

Granted. Though as much as I want to see the "real" Japan, even if it is now confined to the areas of which you speak, I also have very fond memories of Tokyo - I'm an admirer of cityscapes too, and fell in love with Rappongi, Ginza and other such districts.

[amward]

Japan is lovely in autumn if you are in the right place, but in springtime it's fantastic everywhere. There are cherry blossoms, magnolias, bulbs, wisteria etc etc, all flowering even in the smallest plots. My first visit to Japan in autumn left me with an impression of grey, in spite of going to the mountains and seeing all the lovely trees, the second visit in spring blew me away, there were flowers all over the place.

And thanks for the good wishes Orlok and Stitchy

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Umm... just in case, I should mention that the Helen is not an official SI unit.

Good thing you told me. I was thinking it was!
Well, it should be!


Stitchawl

[ProfCrash]

Just finished a Naked Green Machine smoothie (10 fluid ounces) Working on some oatmeal and a cup of Sencha.

I just realized that Thanksgiving is next week. Better order that turkey. Man does time fly when you are sleep deprived and enjoying watching a kid grow.