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Location: Japanese American National Museum store 369 East First Street, Los Angeles, California 90012 Phone: (213) 625-0414, 1(800) 461-5266 Fax: (213) 625-1770 Business hours of museum store: Closed on Monday and Tuesdays Wednesday – Sunday: 11a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday: 12p.m. to 8 p.m. * Free admissions to enter the store Maiko is a young [...]
A woman emerges from a shell on the beach. Caught up in the bliss of becoming, she spreads her arms like wings and flies. The shell is the legendary chambered nautilus, one of Nature’s most incredible *mollusks. What does the nautilus mean to her? To us? Everything! Its life is a metaphor for our soul [...]
St. Patrick’s Day is coming! Store windows are going green, and it’s not about the environment. Cardboard shamrocks hang in stationery shop windows; florists offer pots of shamrocks and green tinted carnation bouquets. We hunt for something green to wear. Classic movie channels recycle old Irish-themed favorites: The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen [...]
The writer of one of my favorite love poems, A Birthday, was Christina Rossetti ~ a Victorian spinster. What was it about Victorian spinsters that inclined them toward poetry, and a passionate inner life? Truly, they were singing birds! They sang their hearts out despite the cages in which they were often confined by the [...]
January. Dark days and long nights. Branches, black against a frozen sky. The swirl of snowflakes on bitter wind. The crunch of snow beneath winter boots. The bite of cold on reddened cheeks, noses, fingers, toes… It’s hard to remember, after the warm glow of Christmas, that cold January is the month of New Beginnings. [...]
At seven a.m. this morning, I switched on my computer to read my email. I checked my bank balance, and shot an e-card off to a friend whose birthday I’d nearly forgotten. (An e-card service to which I subscribe reminded me. Whew!) Then I trotted out the door for my daily walk. Home again, I [...]
Advertising copywriters know the power of magical thinking. It drives sales! Why else would you buy a pair of overpriced running shoes, hoping they’ll help you “Just DO IT!”? Why else pay big bucks for an expensive spa membership (“It’s all about YOU!”) praying it’ll help you get your groove back? If you’ve fallen into [...]
In her garden, any woman can be a goddess! Whether she has a pot of herbs on her kitchen windowsill, a patio pot garden, or a BIG garden, blessed with trees, bushes and lawns to be mowed, she’s the Goddess of Abundance. That’s why I’ve chosen a garden image to illustrate Abundance. Notice that the [...]
Mothers’ Day is coming! Advertisements urge us to remember Mom with cards, candy, flowers and gifts. Mother’s Day is the most popular day of the year to dine out! Florists, candy-makers, restaurateurs and retailers have become the beneficiaries of one of the most commercially successful holidays in history. The celebration of personal mothers, however, is [...]
Women have always fought beside their men. Often, they led men and women into battle too! We know of many women warriors who left their mark on history. In ancient Egypt, Hatshesut, (c1520-1483BC), was the country’s greatest female Pharaoh. She fought to defend her right to govern and rule, and was worshipped for hundreds of [...]
