Category: Holidays

  • decluttering is difficult

    I live in a small apartment, but I had to build a home office in a corner of my house. In the living room, I’m going to clear out the desk I have for my daughter that she doesn’t use and the “large shelf with miscellaneous things on it” next to it, and put a…

  • Covid Positive wave has come to my family

    New Year surprise Covid positive! It was right after new year’s day, after divorce my kids are busy with the holidays, going to dad’s and mom’s (me) s. This year, my ex-husband and I were scheduled to spend Christmas with me, and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day with their dad. On the evening…

  • Cool Japanese Music Vol 5 : Fujii Kaze

    Happy New Year 2022! I’d say King Gnu is the next singer/band I’ve grown to love appeared in 2019 Kohaku but I wanted to write about Fujii Kaze’s first appearance in 2021 while it’s still hot in my memories. Fuji Kaze – Singing with a piano I found out about Kaze Fujii exactly one year…

  • It was the winter solstice. Spiritual awakening day

    Dec. 21 was the winter solstice, the shortest daylight hours of the year (in the northern hemisphere). In spiritual circles, it was a big-time to spiritually wake up until yesterday! Two years ago, I heard from Mr. Yoshikazu Namiki that the gates close at the winter solstice, so I went to hear him talk about…

  • Cool Japanese Music Vol2, Hoshino Gen

    Kohaku Uta Gassen is a national show that airs on 12/31 every year in which selected singers gather together and sing in male and female groups. The viewer rating is usually around 50% in Japan. I’m going to be into two singers for the 2015 Red and White Year-end show. One of them was Gen…