Moe, what a pleasure to read. I hope your descendants delight in and ponder the beautiful way in which you live your life in harmony as you do the life of your grandmother and the Ainu. I like to believe our heaven will include a resurrection of perfected culture as well as body.
I'm returning to this essay as I'm visiting the Pacific, the land of my ancestors, for the first time in many years. I find myself caught in the same cultural currents so well described here and I'm glad to have a fellow traveler to help me think so beautifully about that!
What a beautiful reminder of how we should respond to our aboriginal people everywhere. Coming from Canada's west coast I feel the loss of the traditions and legacy that this author has so sensitively and longingly portrayed
Moe, what a pleasure to read. I hope your descendants delight in and ponder the beautiful way in which you live your life in harmony as you do the life of your grandmother and the Ainu. I like to believe our heaven will include a resurrection of perfected culture as well as body.
I'm returning to this essay as I'm visiting the Pacific, the land of my ancestors, for the first time in many years. I find myself caught in the same cultural currents so well described here and I'm glad to have a fellow traveler to help me think so beautifully about that!
What a beautiful reminder of how we should respond to our aboriginal people everywhere. Coming from Canada's west coast I feel the loss of the traditions and legacy that this author has so sensitively and longingly portrayed