SweetPersimmon

ならひつつ見てこそ習はずよしあしいふは愚かなりけり naraitsutsu mitekoso narae narawazu ni yoshiashi iu wa oroka narikeri One learns by looking and studying. Withou...

Sometimes when I talk to people who are interested in studying the way of tea, they demur when I tell them the introduction class is 10 week...

Someone referred to me recently as a tea master, and I was embarrassed enough to correct them by saying I was still a student of tea.  In tr...

稽古とは一より習ひ十を知り十よりかへるもとのその一 Keiko towa ichi yori narai ju o shiri ju yori kaeru moto no sono ichi Practice constitutes learning from one, be...

Last Friday we had an incredible opportunity to attend a raku pottery lecture and demonstration by my friend Richard Brandt.  Richard is a t...