shasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-148441 • 8 days agoHappy New Year 2026, Part II — Enter the Fire Horse Another year turns over, and with it comes a zodiac sign that carries more cultural baggage than most. A few years ago I started these looks at the new year using the East…shasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-148441 • 17 days agoFire Horse Year: Why 2026 Won’t Repeat 1966 The coming Fire Horse year (丙午, ひのえうま ) still carries a long shadow in Japan. In popular superstition, women born under the Fire Horse are said to be headstrong, dangerous to tshasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-166847 • last monthThe Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Well, I was prepping a new haiku to share with you last night, a dark one from Issa from an especially dark time in his life, but as they say... life gets in the way. Or maybshasta rebloggeddbooster in #hive-193212 • last monthStar Trek Fun Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let’s go into another Three Tune Tuesday post. As always, thanks to @ashasta rebloggedbarnabo73 in #hive-194913 • 3 months 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 • 5 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 • 5 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 • 11 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 • 11 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 • last yearUndergrounds 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…
