SweetPersimmon

I hope everyone had a happy new year celebration.  I apologize for the long absence from the blog, but I had to take care of a few family ma...

Like any formal invitation,  an invitation to a tea gathering will have a time, date and place.   But look closer at the invitation.  The h...

Well gee, I just learned how to put some things into the left hand column.   You will see two new things today: an announcement of the new i...

Before Sen Rikyu there was tea and before Bach there was music. ~Hisashi Yamada

Despite bitter cold and a horrendous East wind blowing last Sunday, my husband and I were invited to the opening of the anagama firing by Ri...