While I was in Japan, I visited Japanese cypress (hinoki) and thujopsis dolabrata (asunaro) forests. I read an interesting story about “asu-naro.” In Japanese, Asu means tomorrow. Naro means I want to be or I will be. It is said that this tree grows each day by wanting to become a hinoki tomorrow. In fact, […]

I saw a picture of tiny new shoes in my friend’s blog. The shoes were for his son’s first birthday and they perfectly fit his tiny feet. I thought that the gift was filled with love and symbolic for his son. This cute baby – still a tiny person, too, has his own life to […]