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I Fell in Love with the Moon

I fell in love with the moon when I was five years old. My mother forced me to sit still in front of the television and watch as the Eagle crept down and settled on the powdery surface of the moon.

Wild Sea and the Milky Way Athwart the Island of Sado Series: The Haiku Series, #4 Edition: 17 of 50 Portfolio: Haiga Portfolio Stanton Macdonald-Wright (United States, Virginia, Charlottesville, 1890-1973) United States, 1966-1967 Prints; woodcuts Woodcut Sheet: 21 3/8 × 17 3/4 in. (54.29 × 45.09 cm) Image: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.48 × 40.32 cm) Gift of Modernage Photography Service, Inc. (M.85.215.4) Prints and Drawings

Because some people like to watch the world learn

araumi ya
Sado ni yokotau
amanogawa
the rough sea
stretching out towards Sado
the Milky Way

"File:Whitney cabinet1a.jpg" by Aliza Nisenbaum is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Immigrants Find Home at Cantor Art Center

I connected with the work of Aliza Nisenbaum. Like me, she teaches English to immigrants. She taught English at the Immigrant Movement International, a community space in Queens started by the Cuban-born artist and activist Tania Bruguerahe.

Beautiful Imperfections

Beautiful Imperfections: Interlocking Threads with Memories

Hand crafted projects rarely are perfect, I remind myself. I have learnt to embrace these imperfections and incompleteness, the wabi sabi (侘寂) of life. The simple Japanese concept of coming to terms with transience,  the imperfections and the incompleteness that life holds.

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