give a cluck

Happy new year! I don’t quite know where 2016 went (maybe somewhere in a hand basket??) but all of a…

dog

 dog: a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship. (Ambrose…

pick one

“pick one, / let’s have it for dinner” (hitotsu moide gohan ni shyou)   This etegami features a curvaceous butternut…

you are buddhaful

This is a long-overdue post, drafted in winter about a winter fruit called the Buddha’s Hand citron. I was reminded…

Arboreal animal

Woohoo, look what I found… a New Year’s card I forgot to post. This one I sent to my mom,…

light as a gourd

just one possession, my world light as a gourd もの一つ / 我が世はかろき / 瓢かな I had a leftover gourd painting from…

be still

“Be still, and know that I am god.” Psalm 46:10 Etegami of a late-autumn sunflower, bowing down under the weight…

Consider the lilies

“Consider the lilies” This etegami features a line that I thought originated from a couple of 19th-century poets I’m familiar…