Happiness is the Way
12/23/2017 12:36:23 AM
2017 was another memorable year for me, from meeting and working with hundreds of artists and art lovers to visiting some great places in the world. I spent most of the year teaching workshops and painting in and outside classrooms in five continents but I know this was not possible without many people who worked so hard. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to each of the organizers, volunteers and students in dozens of workshops I taught in the past year for their time, dedication, professionalism, patience, kindness and love for what they do (the list of 2017 groups [...]
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Journey Home 2017
12/13/2017 11:32:46 PM
I couldn't believe my eyes when I picked up newspaper on the first morning at my mother's, whom I visited after a year, in Kyoto, Japan last month. My father, a scholar of French literature and philosophy, deceased ten years ago, was mentioned in the front-page column. It was with the quote of Simone Weil, a French philosopher whose work my father translated into Japanese, about factory workers she chose to work with after quitting her teaching job: "The temptation to give up thinking altogether is the most difficult one to resist:one feels so clearly that it is the only way [...]
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