Kansai Cool

Gratitude
hari kuyo - Festival of broken needles.
Suikinkutsu
Suzo  - ASU has one on campus.
Seeing the forest and the trees

Culture

Today I had  a breakthrough in understanding cultures.

A person tries to understand another culture still through their own culture systems.
So is it possible to truly understand another culture? Is it only through adoption?

Pets and Americans.
In Hindu mythology, animals are a didnt-make-it-to-humans category in the Spin-the-Karma-Wheel game.

Untroubled

Author: Ana Castillo

Just a little background of New Mexico's history and you will be ready to understand why the connection of the people to the land is different from those of other Native Indians. 'So far from God' shows how having moved away from the land of their ancestors, people fail to connect to it in the same way as their predecessors.
Although it deals with serious issues, it does not fail to make you laugh out loud when weird things happen to Sofi's children and she's still one piece. And all this when you thought you were beginning to feel pity for Sofi beset with troubles for children.

Aug 4, 2007, 5/5

read for a class.

Culture and more

Author: Amy Tan

This book is a yarn spun by four women , Chinese Americans and their mothers who have seen dificult times. It is a good mix of else where and now.

The book of is an easy read. The flow of the book will not let you put it down.

I liked reading about the various practices in China. Their belief in fortune, trying to beget favorable conditions, even when everything is not so right, is fascinating.

Different voices in the book form a bridge between short story and novel forms. Although the distinctness of the voices is not preserved, the matter of the stories are still conveyed in a very interesting manner.


May 19, 2005, 5/5