Actually, Sensei said to me, “O-meh no kimochi kankeh neeh, yo!”, which is Okayama Dialect for the title of this essay.
At the time, I was a misty-eyed liberal, just graduated from college. The statement was shocking to me, I (for once) was at a loss for words! Thank Goodness, I surely would have […]
My “Senpai”, ‘elder apprentice’, and I built a kiln while I was in Japan.
Not long into the process, we ran into a big rock, right where the kiln was to go. We tried to move it with a backhoe, it was too big; we tried to dig it out, but it seemed to be […]
Borrowing from Hippocrates: “First, Do No Harm.”
We can summarily dismiss as unethical the actions of those who harm others, whether for personal gain, through negligence, or through base spite.
“Second, be sure that what you are doing is good.”
We will all correctly discern, on Judgment Day, whether we have been right or […]