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Spring

Noticing the bloom

Sakura – Cherry Blossoms are starting to flower 

Time to celebrate 🙂  Birthdays …Thank you for the homemade fruit tart – Beautiful design of fruits celebrating the abundance of colors and fresh flavors.  

Tulip blooming

Sakura Mochi for coming of Spring …

This is Starbucks Tokyo window this March … just to look at to get ideas is enough for me.

& time to reconnect with friends we miss.  Indulging, making exceptions to the usual no sugar diet … and oddly? no weight gain ?  It’s about the metabolism and portion control when you are yoga-ing more and more.

Spring Yin Yoga – focus on cleansing and renewal – Element is Wood – Internal Organs to stimulate and care are Liver and Gallbladders – the rivers within you are no longer stagnant, taking the time to practice the sequence designed to awaken and renew.

Spring is Here.

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To think Anthony Bourdain loved this place …

Tsukiji was once the world’s largest wholesale fish market.  Today, it’s a shell of what it once was (as the heart and soul of the auction trade has moved to the ultra modern Toyosu location to which I have yet to visit)  but the spirit lives on. I remember when I was in college, we were visiting as tourists – okay, guess I am still a tourist, an outsider here  – so back then, would come 4am thinking it’s early enough to find out we were too late to witness the true heat, the action – by 4am the auction commerce was already over, the business was winding down.  Most of these stores close around 1pm if not earlier so … these stalls are now all for tourists not for the real dealers and buyers in the food service industry.c

Are the vegan readers all swooning just about now?

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Sayonara Tokyo

Here’s my last meal in Japan @ Haneda Airport in Tokyo. This is why I’m not vegan but pescatarian. Yet sushi is a delicacy enjoyed only few times a year – rest of the time adhering loosely to plant based diet.

With much gratitude for nourishment to live on within me – appreciation of all that pranic energy and efforts that went into this dish, to make this pre-flight meal possible… the fisherman, the transport, rice farmers, ceramic producers, green tea producers and purveyors and … the sushi chef.

Gochisousamadeshita!