Went to an astonishingly moving performance of La Traviata! (I may have wept through most of it) We were so fortunate to be invited by Pierre’s friend Martin Bakari, who played a delightfully magnetizing Gaston! I will dream in music tonight! Congratulations to all 💐

Pierre Nagley first solo exhibition in Japan. Please come in you’re in Kyoto April 1-6.

For those in Kyoto, on Dec 17 (Tues) at Kyoto University. RSVP by writing to the email in the flier.

If you are in Kyoto, go to see the Minamata Exhibition. It’s outstanding. How a corporation was held to account by citizens for the very crime of greed being committed all around us every day. Until December 22 at Miyako Messe in Okazaki.

The guest speaker today in my University class called “Global Engagement and Peace” is a peacebuilder from Cambodia. She recalled the Khmer Rouge times, and said everything became property of the KR, to the extent that if you grew a cucumber to eat you would be a traitor. Peace is an active choice.

Kyoto Botanical Gardens 100th Anniversary

Steam song from kettle brushes sleep from my ears and readies my lungs. Foggy kitchen in winter morning light. The day ahead is bright.

Dinner prepping stuffed peppers in the podgy ‘ole toaster oven jetting sniffs of cumin and thyme. time to dream. time to serve. time to eat together. spoonfuls of this year’s harvest in beloved chipped bowls. A toast to “hope”.

Blue of autumn sky, crisp. deep. cooled on breeze wisps of the thinnest paintbrush clouds. like mist. then fog. thick. heavy. dampening the reds and golden changing leaves of death. mystery. slumber. dreams.