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Musings on rain, Zazen, and teaching

Boat deck in the sunset

pastel & charcoal on paper

Hello friends,

I imagine you are enjoying the arrival of a beautiful autumn. Here in Northern California, I yearned for the rain, and in recent days, there have been a…

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A stranger in this country

I am a person who transplanted herself in the soil of America. I grew up in Japan. And my family was South Korean. 

I came to the US in the early ’90s when Reaganomics was still working it’s magic, good…

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Finish the button.

“Let’s practice this piece for another week,” I said to her. 

She rolled her eyes looking exasperated. “Wasn’t I good enough?” 

I took that to mean: to her, working on the piece for a week was long enough. 

“There, there,”…

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Funny excuses to cancel a music lesson

As I have been adding more years of teaching experience under my belt, I feel more and more weary that people make lame excuses to suddenly cancel on me. Yes, it’s not so rare that someone do that almost five…

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