I haven’t been stitching much… Sashiko is easy to get started. What we need is a thimble, needle, thread, and fabric after all. However, it is a bit of chaos to homeschool a 5 years old girl while my cat tries to jump on the thread. So, instead, when I…
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I love Cherry Blossom – as I named my cat the name for it, “Sakura (桜）”. In PA,
I love Cherry Blossom – as I named my cat the name for it, “Sakura (桜）”. In PA, the Spring Wind can be quite strong. Therefore, the full blossom of Sakura is almost momentally, for a few days of blessing for me in Spring. ☆ The beauty in “Moment” (short…
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In this extraordinary (pandemic), ”Pray (only itself)” won’t change a reality. W
In this extraordinary (pandemic), ”Pray (only itself)” won’t change a reality. We need to “Stay (still)” rather than “Pray”. However, without “Pray”, nothing can be restarted. All of the changes start from our “praying (for the new ordinary)”. ☆ One of the core messages I would like to “tell” to…
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「手をみれば、その人の生き様がわかる。守る手、重ねる手だよ。頑張ったね。」親父＆僕の両方の幼少期を知る、卒寿を超えた方から頂いた言葉です。
「手をみれば、その人の生き様がわかる。守る手、重ねる手だよ。頑張ったね。」親父＆僕の両方の幼少期を知る、卒寿を超えた方から頂いた言葉です。 ☆ お世辞にも綺麗だと言える手じゃありません。家事も刺し子も指先の感覚が失われるのが嫌なので、水仕事も何もかも基本素手なので、一層荒れるばかり。でも、ちょっと自慢の手です。握力というより 、重ねる手。伝わるかな。 ☆ 手は氣の出入り口であり、増幅機関であり、またフィルターでもあります。運針の針目に惹かれるのは、その手の持つ”らしさ”を形にしたものだと思うから。いろんな人と話す中で、結構真面目に、「刺し子の持つチカラ」を再確認しています。”コロナ疲れ”が出てくる頃だからこそ、余計に。刺し子を通して何かのメッセージを伝えることができるのかもしれません。 ☆ – – – ☆ I would never say my hand is beautiful from a cosmetic perspective. I use & depends on my hand so heavily, in Sashiko, in house work, and pretty much everything. I prefer the bare hand so I can “feel”….
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In Sashiko workshop & Online Class, many ask me “is it good stitching?”. I under
In Sashiko workshop & Online Class, many ask me “is it good stitching?”. I understand that it is a very natural question in learning something new – to be better. However, my attention goes to how you enjoy the stitching itself. Even stitches, beautiful stitches, accuracy, the results are of…
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As you may know already, this account is a duo of a mother & her son. Atsushi te
As you may know already, this account is a duo of a mother & her son. Atsushi tells a story while stitching, and Keiko does whatever she feels like in Sashiko. I am left brain, Keiko is right brain. She is a nightmare for me as a mother, but a…
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In the past, people only could pray when an outbreak of infectious disease occur
In the past, people only could pray when an outbreak of infectious disease occurred. Today, we have a choice to overcome. I humbly follow the expert decision – the US is in National Emergency – we should do all of the precautionary measures to protect us. No panic is necessary…
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I spend a good Saturday morning typing in Japanese about the “Sashiko & the Japa
I spend a good Saturday morning typing in Japanese about the “Sashiko & the Japanese philosophy of praying”, which explain what I would like to tell throughout Sashiko. I won’t be able to translate what I wrote into English well, so I will write another blog with this topic. The…
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One of a few Keiko’s art pieces (Tapestry). Keiko worked on this Sashiko Stitchi
One of a few Keiko’s art pieces (Tapestry). Keiko worked on this Sashiko Stitching while I (Atsushi) was in a collage far from Japan (MI). Since I wasn’t very strong, tend to get flue or sick easily, whenever Keiko received a message that I was sick, she prayed and stitched….