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On this day it became possible all over the US for two people like my parents to legally marry. They were already together anyway,...

Walking under the tsuyu 梅雨 skies of Tokyo. Strange and familiar to be back home after so long. So different yet nothing has changed....

It’s National Pet Day! We don’t have pets any more, but others’ pets come and stay with us when their humans can’t care for them. Some...

It’s not easy letting ourselves be loved Always judging ourselves We're never good enough to be loved just the way we are Sometimes we...

We dwell in the beauty of silence in my classes, trusting in the truth that lies in MA 間, in the spaces between words, musical notes,...

The tree doctor gave the death sentence. Your tree is dying. She will not last through the winter. She has bloomed for the last time. Say...

Today I begin another class, a college course, with a syllabus, credits, and grades. We’ll meet for ten weeks, three hours a week, just...

Eleven years later I remember the great disaster in Tohoku, northeast Japan, when a great earthquake erupted in the ocean sending a huge...

IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME A short film by Walter Thompson-Hernandez Official Selection of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival Join us for a...

We gathered together to re-member and move toward wholeness. One day we met in the church to remember one of us who left this world not...

In our community a student took their life. We who remain have needed care from each other. Reeling with the news, feeling confused and...

毎朝、私たちはどうしたら新しい日を最高に生きられるかというチャレンジに向き合います。私たちは、私たちが誰であるか、そしてなぜ私たちがここにいるのかを振り返りながら一日を始めることができます。マインドフルネス、思いやり、そして責任感を持って全力を尽くすという決意を新たにします...

"Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began." (S.Hammer) Happy...

Perhaps you’ve heard VUCA as a way of describing today’s world—Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. The idea originates from the...

I woke up and looked at the clock—2:22. A little early, but fitting, as it was 2/22/22. Grandmother died on this day seven years ago at...

February 19, Remembrance Day, was a good day to remember. 忘 is the kanji for “forget”—the top part 亡 is death and the bottom 心 is...