May 4, 2009
Yarn is sold in skeins or balls. Skeins are those cool looking twisty things. I spin wool into yarn on my spinning wheel. It ends up on a large bobbin. Then I make these large skeins using my niddy noddy (yep. that's what it's called). I dye the large batch of yarn first so I get consistent colors for more than one skein. The yarn pictured got rewound into 200yd skeins. Betsy's hand made yarn is available at http://www.betsyply.etsy.com
על משמעות המילה "מוקוסו״ והדוג׳ו שלנו – סנסיי ריוגן סבוקה וג׳יימס יאגאשי לאחרונה, תלמיד שאל אותי שאלה נהדרת: מה ההתייחסות הנכונה כשיושבים בסייזה )ישיבה יפנית מסורתית( לפני שנשמע הפעמון להתחלת השיעור?
On the meaning of 黙想 (mokuso) and our Dōjō Recently, a student asked me a wonderful question: what is the right attitude when sitting in seiza before the bell is rung before the start of class? Mokuso
One of the elders used to say: In the beginning when we got together we used to talk about something that was good for our souls, and we went up and up, and ascended even to heaven. But now we get to