November 19, 2009

• A bit saner than yesterday...  I have a tea bowl that I bought in Kagoshima (Ryumonji Yaki Ware) and my guitar (No, Martin, bad!!) fell over on it an whacked the thing clean in half.  I may have it repaired using the "kintsugi" method if I can find some place that will do it cheaply.  This involves welding the pieces back together with something that looks like gold, although at laquer might also have something to do with it.  This process adds a gold stripe along the crack, which is supposed to give the repaired piece that good old "wabi-sabi" look that the tea ceremony people like so well. You can see an example of a repaired piece of pottery below.   Then today I knocked over another plate and whacked that in half, too, but fixed it with super glue.  It was cheap and is not worth kintsuging in my book, or in my dish cabinet, either.

   

  Today I took the other half of last year's little turkey out of the freezer and am making soup out of it, since a trip around the sun may have rendered it better boiled than baked.  The aroma inspired me to make some cornbread, too. 

  I have been spending too much time playing in Facebook and really should get back here, because I am terribly behind in everything.  Even Dotter tells me to stop with Farmville already and write up something a bit more constructive.  It is just hard to concentrate with all the shifting around. 

  My pilgrim buddy said that my song might do better in 4/4 than in 3/4 and showed me a nice arpeggio to practice.  I will admit it moves the essentially three-chord tune along and makes it sound less country-western dorky.  All of his music has a motor running in the background, which makes me like it.  He will be travelling to a couple of cities for gigs, prayers for travelling mercies, please.

  My dentist wants to see me again, and the cornbread is done.  Pastor Nishida's sermon writeup gets procrastinated upon one more time...

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