shasta rebloggedbarnabo73 in #hive-194913 • 4 days agoA talk with spirits: meeting a shamanLast august I have met a shaman in Mongolia, in a lovely natural park outside Ulan Bator. His name is Bilguutei. He is young, son of a great and famous shaman. I think he…shasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-148441 • 2 months agoReading the Great Wave DifferentlyIn my last post yesterday, I looked at Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa in broad strokes: its history, technique, and meaning. Today, let’s take a step deeper into how this…shasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-193212 • 2 months agoHokusai’s Great Wave: More Than Just a Meme It's no secret that I love Japanese woodblock prints. I usually include them in my haiku posts and even in some of my other posts. There is something very striking about even the…shasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-180658 • 8 months ago1943 Steel PennyIn honor of the death of the penny ([see here][death]), I thought we'd look at another penny from my coin collection. This one isn't exactly rare or hard to get, but at the same…shasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-174122 • 8 months agoDeath to the PennyYou might have missed it in the overwhelming barrage of executive orders, courts over turning them, and Trump and Musk defying the courts and doing them anyway,shasta rebloggedpardinus in #hive-163772 • 10 months agoUndergrounds rivers and pristine beautyFinally able to do a post! Singapore was my first destination on these vacations, but I felt like a first proper post about them should be about my main travel motto: nature! So…