tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38084825948895565572024-03-05T11:02:59.870-08:00A Song of Japan - ARI JournalA Song of Japan - ARI Journal is the Blog of Joyce & Bob Ray as they experience life at the Asian Rural Institute in Japan. The Dunbarton Congregational Church, UCC is their NH home church. They are Global Ministries Short term VolunteersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-22954432270277849162018-10-23T05:52:00.001-07:002018-10-23T05:57:34.333-07:00Harvest Thanksgiving at ARI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the third week of October, we
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air here in Tochigi, Japan. Some days are still warm, but
nights are pretty cool. We expected to see changing leaves, but they are still
green, and the changes are in the mountains, we hear. September was busy with
many visitors – university classes coming to gain experience in organic
agriculture, Rotary clubs and women’s groups. Mealtimes were spent explaining
to visitors our role as short term Global Missionaries and why we are here! <br />
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Of course, we may think we know our reason
for being here. We want to support this training program that facilitates the
self-development of rural people. We want to be part of a community where
people of all races and religions live in harmony. However, we have come to
realize that there may be another reason. It seems we are under observation! A
participant from Ghana sees Bob bringing a cup of soup to me at lunch. “Bob is
teaching me how to be a good husband,” he says. </div>
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Participants are surprised to
learn we have been married over 50 years. “You inspire me to work harder to be
a good partner,” they say. “I hope for a long, happy marriage like yours.”
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At the end of September we harvested the
rice. Most of ARI’s paddy fields are harvested by machine these days, but we
harvest one paddy field together as a community. </div>
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We take time to remember that
this year we have been eating the rice planted by last year’s participants, and
this rice we are about to harvest is for the new class of 2019. A prayer and a
song start us off, sickles are distributed and a ceremonial sheaf is cut. The
harvest begins! Some community members cut sheaves, others tie the bundles and
hang upside down on bamboo stands to dry. This year we harvested in a rainy
drizzle, but spirits were high. This community work is an essential part of
what binds participants, staff and volunteers together. </div>
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Thanksgiving Celebration on October 13 and 14. It’s ARI’s biggest event of the
year and a time to showcase the spirit of ARI for many visitors. The real
purpose is to build participants’ leadership skills, as they chair committees
and plan for a major event. Volunteers join the committees- worship and
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Bob and I worked with stage and
decoration. We helped build and decorate a tall bamboo gate to welcome guests
and an outdoor stage for cultural performances. We recruited performers and held
a rehearsal for Sri Lankan dancers, American folk songs and line dance, singers
and guitar players from Myanmar, Japan, Sierra Leone, a Kenyan poet, and many
others. Bob ran the sound board and recruited helpers. I recruited stage
announcers and tried to boost audience attendance by distributing ARI
bookmarks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Despite a rainy forecast, the weekend was
beautiful, an answer to prayer, we are sure. One thousand people came over two
days! They heard sermons; sang “Bringing in the Sheaves;” ate peanut soup and
pork bone stew from Ghana, Indian chapati and chai, Brazilian caramel chocolate
balls, African fufu and heaps of traditional food cooked by the participants;
shopped at the bazaar of donated items; clapped for performers; tried on
traditional clothing for a photo op; played games; and learned about ARI’s
mission while helping us celebrate the harvest. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzoY6Zillpy8kU2K2GfAAPAz8dbSZHiRE9nJHWOBq2onIDFu-XF1Wpjb-gS-A0ROU0574_HWDuZpH_rce3FItH5_ynkytuyiG3lS7Gemb0WEE5VEB0_YlSBGXZMhXaXHEzLoo8LXK0wPl/s1600/ARI_HTC-201810_05C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzoY6Zillpy8kU2K2GfAAPAz8dbSZHiRE9nJHWOBq2onIDFu-XF1Wpjb-gS-A0ROU0574_HWDuZpH_rce3FItH5_ynkytuyiG3lS7Gemb0WEE5VEB0_YlSBGXZMhXaXHEzLoo8LXK0wPl/s320/ARI_HTC-201810_05C.jpg" width="320" /></a>Minngos, the ARI Gospel Choir, performed
each day. Minngos translates to “Gospel for everyone.” Jonathan McCurley, a
Methodist missionary from Florida and ARI Community Life Coordinator, organized
the choir about six years ago. Jonathan loves gospel music and is the most
exuberant director. I hadn’t had much exposure to Gospel music but decided to
try it out. At first, I was unsure about the repetitive verses, but have come
to enjoy these songs of praise sung with joyful abandon, so different from the
hymns <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am used to. </div>
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on compiling a book of founder Takami sensei’s quotations and completed a first
draft of a children’s alphabet book about ARI. What we have received is of most
importance – the friendship and love of people from many cultures who believe
in building a world where no one goes hungry. </div>
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Our two months here is about to come to an
end. In addition to working with pigs and chickens, Bob has built a roof,
refinished desk tops, made minor repairs in dorms, and repainted the Peace pole.<br />
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Just this past week we harvested
sweet potatoes together. The ARI community will begin a long period when sweet potatoes are a feature of most meals because ARI eats what it grows and raises. ARI is about 90% self-sufficient in its food needs.</div>
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Joyce Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02905709719444916488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-70408173839399743292018-09-14T23:01:00.004-07:002018-09-16T04:36:03.637-07:00Global Ministries at the Asian Rural Institute, September 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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smiles, camaraderie, hard work, learning by doing, and everything that comes
with a community sharing a common life together. The special blessing of
returning is renewing friendships and also meeting a whole new class of
participants and volunteers. We are grateful to Global Ministries, an ARI partner for their
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even the baby country of East Timore, only 12 years old. These men and women
participants from different faith traditions are already rural leaders in their
countries. They are here to learn servant leadership skills, community
development and to care for the environment by growing vegetables organically
rather than with chemicals.</span></div>
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also learned in the kitchen as the participants take turns assigning tasks and
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sometimes a Japanese taste, Indonesian taste or Kenyan taste. We are not eating
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAOSEoinVM9FcA10_MBtDPA6YWxs5yAohY3m4fT_7MpATAJqe4pG4CwRmFlkdTtCntb_faAVifxCzH63oxFcXxVH45cwkc4KiK1ZP4EXMdWj_btnMM7SpZ-zKV1TYLmP_wpy7yFGJrBrU/s1600/IMG_3454.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAOSEoinVM9FcA10_MBtDPA6YWxs5yAohY3m4fT_7MpATAJqe4pG4CwRmFlkdTtCntb_faAVifxCzH63oxFcXxVH45cwkc4KiK1ZP4EXMdWj_btnMM7SpZ-zKV1TYLmP_wpy7yFGJrBrU/s200/IMG_3454.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A week after we arrived, the Honorary Director of ARI,
the Rev. Dr. Toshihiro Takami, passed away at the age of 91. ARI was Takami
sensei’s dream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He planted the seed in 1973– the only place in the world where
rural leaders could be trained. He was a humble man, inspired by God to become
a servant leader for vulnerable people who depend on the land for survival. </span>At
ARI we become more conscious that even those of us who do not grow most of our
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Joyce Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02905709719444916488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-66195218697409091382013-10-21T04:46:00.001-07:002013-11-03T18:11:07.914-08:00Harvest Thanksgiving Celebration at the Asian Rural Institute <div class="p0" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">by Bob and Joyce Ray, Global Ministries Short-term Volunteers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszXld2N59MuWFqiZr7iebWDWjGZOo_9oDbyLdcXFXNkj-9cRWba7nZRj7Pafq068fDuuNjBqWZRLyjU6TAXjSE2YM3tZ825AXYlgYHDP8HH7z1MEnJAPULRGYeGE50Py9xjDYmtoOxcJV/s1600/ARI-HTC-9757c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszXld2N59MuWFqiZr7iebWDWjGZOo_9oDbyLdcXFXNkj-9cRWba7nZRj7Pafq068fDuuNjBqWZRLyjU6TAXjSE2YM3tZ825AXYlgYHDP8HH7z1MEnJAPULRGYeGE50Py9xjDYmtoOxcJV/s320/ARI-HTC-9757c.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Fall has arrived, but without the color in this region yet. The sun is warm by day, but nights are chilly. Without heat in the buildings, we wear hats, scarves and coats to supper. However, Harvest Thanksgiving Celebration weekend, October 12-13, was spectacular. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7PQqvUaXR4Twddeet0A46JwgoTMl05P269aGnPtaJVFs5wzeKMPfgWvi_aa6myBDnN1_Y5QpqWiAfJiQ6Krsr9xM4-EJLobsmM2D27IcBI650cQ391Tfr7ziU_4yPx-YhcimCF7G-OsX/s1600/ARI-HTC-bazaar-9642c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7PQqvUaXR4Twddeet0A46JwgoTMl05P269aGnPtaJVFs5wzeKMPfgWvi_aa6myBDnN1_Y5QpqWiAfJiQ6Krsr9xM4-EJLobsmM2D27IcBI650cQ391Tfr7ziU_4yPx-YhcimCF7G-OsX/s200/ARI-HTC-bazaar-9642c.JPG" width="142" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">An estimated 1,500 people came to this annual event to enjoy both organic food from many cultures and stage performances showcasing ethnic dance and song. A bazaar with donated items from ARI supporters is very popular. HTC is ARI’s invitation to the public to celebrate the harvest given by God and also a major fundraiser for scholarships.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBqFMHS5AZG96zr4N1zMAgGWJlXdtwmKXGOH0tY4ZFAmIU9_1GY1jrY1ZC75Pu7txo_lUGdcLCEe172ojuLn5oLj25m_uZqqUrZFK9Qv6FNXlKKEDMwenf_BQ-1W0KMzEH4eSeKLW_RF-/s1600/ARI-HTC-Enet-Mbuche-9759c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBqFMHS5AZG96zr4N1zMAgGWJlXdtwmKXGOH0tY4ZFAmIU9_1GY1jrY1ZC75Pu7txo_lUGdcLCEe172ojuLn5oLj25m_uZqqUrZFK9Qv6FNXlKKEDMwenf_BQ-1W0KMzEH4eSeKLW_RF-/s320/ARI-HTC-Enet-Mbuche-9759c.JPG" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Weekly planning meetings began the first of September. Chakura team organized food, Shalom (Bob) planned two worship celebrations and handled logistics, Tree of Colors decorated an indoor and outdoor stage and organized musical performances, and Tano-C (Joyce) planned and constructed children’s games and decorated the game area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">The whole planning process is part of the participants’ leadership training. Some committees worked smoothly together, others had difficulties. Remember that most people are trying to communicate in a language that is not their first language. Ideas need to be repeated, even sketched out, to be understood. </span></div>
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The weekend arrived with gorgeous weather. The worship opened with the participants processing and presenting the harvest on the altar. We participated in both worship services by ushering and reading scripture. Throughout the day, Joyce enticed visitors to dress up in the participants’ traditional clothes and took their photos. Bob pedaled popcorn, checked recycling stations and emptied trash. We made our stage debut with other Americans singing “Country Roads.”<br />
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Now at the end of this week, fish have been harvested, seed corn cut, and participants are readying their Reflection Papers.<br />
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We are blessed. Joyce Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02905709719444916488noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-63921354319326180692013-10-14T20:43:00.001-07:002013-10-21T03:47:25.882-07:00Asian Rural Institute HTC Activities<div class="p0" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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But we also did an ARI version, Please note the happy faces filled with the joy of sharing foodlife work together with friends from many nations and trying to live out the ARI motto "That we may live together".<br />
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Joyce Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02905709719444916488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-87110196974296421482013-10-12T04:14:00.001-07:002013-10-12T04:14:18.623-07:00Asian Rural Institute Harvesting and Farming Activities<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">by Bob and Joyce Ray, Global Ministries Short-term Volunteers</span><br />
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Bob’s foodlife work until now has been in the Denmark pig pens, mostly mucking out the pig manure for compost enrichment. This is NOT a favorite chore for participants or volunteers.<br />
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However due to the earthquake damage, ARI has constructed new Korean pig pens that significantly reduce the effort to care for pigs.<br />
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So recently we had pig moving day to move the sows to their new facility which has two foot deep organic floors. These floors are a mix of sawdust, cedar shavings, rice husks and other organic materials, and utilize the pig’s natural tendency to churn up everything near them. Their dung is simply mixed in, composted in place and removed when the floor needs to be refreshed. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalqt7D9-BArRW0l4l_6rmLUNGEZ2kGL2CibZAylKevxnkIfOVr8nNPC5CyBGta4O_LkvbUSz9TZm53qZG0G-0-fO6IQs5DFnuVhVQBra_9EB7KtVrDrZakVopGVl240VDwGa84Lw_X2t9/s1600/ARI-Moving-Pigs-9521Cw.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalqt7D9-BArRW0l4l_6rmLUNGEZ2kGL2CibZAylKevxnkIfOVr8nNPC5CyBGta4O_LkvbUSz9TZm53qZG0G-0-fO6IQs5DFnuVhVQBra_9EB7KtVrDrZakVopGVl240VDwGa84Lw_X2t9/s200/ARI-Moving-Pigs-9521Cw.JPG" width="200" /></a><br />
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Moving pigs is a BIG job since a 300 kg sow does not easily change her direction once she starts moving. The picture shows one of the smaller sows that we moved first who was very reluctant to be the first pig in the piggery.<br />
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We got the hang of it with pig sized boards that kept their view of the world focused in the direction desired and moved all five sows. Moving the later sows were less of a problem once the piggery was occupied. <br />
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Joyce is very carefully checking out mama pig while the two pigs were seeming to have a very animated conversation that could have been something like, ”Hey, sister, how do you like our new digs?” Even on a very soft floor, a pig stomping on your foot is very undesirable. <br />
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ARI corn is grown mostly for silage for the pigs. We had a community harvest day to cut the corn from one of the fields. Everyone was armed with a very sharp Japanese hand sickle and worked side by side in adjacent rows. It was a rather harrowing experience, not for the faint of heart. <br />
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Joyce is giving fast moving Abe-san wide berth. However everyone was careful in spite of flashing blades and the harvest went without accident. <br />
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The weather has changed. The Hokkaido Express (like the
Montreal Express) seemed to blow in, and everyone is bundled up. Enet from Malawi
has been crocheting colorful hats for all her African sisters. Of course, we
are enjoying the cooler temperature.</div>
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from their Rural Community Study Tour. There are 14 women, 17 men and one male
Training Coordinator. They come from Brazil,
Ecuador, Uganda, Zambia,
Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon,
Malawi, Thailand, Myanmar,
Indonesia, India, Philippines,
Nepal, Japan and Sri Lanka. Through working together
in the kitchen, cleaning eggs (Joyce), caring for pigs (Bob), harvesting rice and
working on planning committees together, we can call each other family. To
some, we are Auntie and Uncle. For Joyce, that’s a promotion. The first day she
tried to hoe and make planting beds, the young participants told her to “Please
take a rest, Madam!” </div>
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We are no longer eating cucumbers three times a day, and the
tomatoes are about gone. We’ve moved on to squash, pumpkin and soybeans now.
Eating in season is very ARI. It makes sense, and of course that’s what people
used to do, but even when we resolve to eat what’s in season back home in NH,
we can’t resist lettuce and salad veggies in the winter. At that time, the ARI
community eats root crops or vegetables preserved through canning or freezing,
rice, eggs, pork and fish produced on the farm. </div>
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and gone. We even welcomed a typhoon as a guest! Despite the wind and rain, it
was an amazing time with over 50 graduates returning, some for a week or
longer. Jerome from Bangladesh
represented the very first ARI Class of 1973! We were thrilled to renew friendships
with Hoshi and Manar from the Class of 2010. </div>
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organizations that help women, children and disadvantaged or indigenous people,
establishing their own NGOs, preaching and caring for congregations, or
creating demonstration farms to train others in organic farming, food
preservation and sanitation. Our event was a true international symposium with seminars,
panels and breakout sessions. The grads shared their experiences and generated
ideas of how ARI can further support future graduates. You can imagine the
powerful impact their presence made on this current class about to graduate in
December.</div>
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One night we prepared the meal - pasta and soybeans tossed with basil pesto,
roasted vegetables, pumpkin curry soup, rice, chocolate chip cookies, and rhubarb
cobbler. All ingredients except pasta, wheat flour, and chocolate chips were
grown at ARI. We cooked for 150 people. On the main celebration day, the ARI
kitchen served 300 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Harvest Day was a first for us. Most ARI paddies are harvested mechanically,
but rural South Asian participants usually harvest by hand. After songs and a
prayer, we sallied forth in a line and cut bunches of rice stalks with a
sickle. Others constructed a bamboo drying rack, bundled the stalks with twine
and hung them upside down on the bamboo pole. Joyce harvested in an
experimental non-tillage paddy, meaning the rice was allowed to grow naturally
with no weeding. Therefore, weeds had to be extracted before bundling - a nice
sit-down task! Walking on the banks of the paddies to participate in the usual
group photo, Joyce stepped in a hole, twisted her ankle and fell. After some
rather painful stretching massage by an Indian guest and acupuncture by a Thai
participant, her ankle healed quickly.</div>
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sick, someone is there to help. We sing and pray (in many languages or
silently) before each meal and community event and at weekday Morning
Gatherings which are led by community members in turn. There is a strong
awareness of God’s grace throughout each day and many opportunities to share
our faith. On Monday evenings, a prayer group prays for community concerns. On
Wednesdays a gospel choir, practices and attracts local Japanese community
members. A Lectio Divinia group meets for Bible study on Thursdays. One can
choose to worship at several churches on Sunday morning. Enet’s strong voice
praised God one Sunday at the Nishinasuno United Church of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
Joyce Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02905709719444916488noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-85607793429455337042013-09-05T03:29:00.006-07:002013-09-05T03:34:43.964-07:00 Asian Rural Institute Orientation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Bob and Joyce Ray, Global Ministries Short-term
Volunteers</div>
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new, sturdy and lovely to look at due to tremendous global support after the
Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011. The same ARI spirit of acceptance and love
remains! Our re-introduction has been more relaxed because the participants and
three staff members are away on a Western Japan Rural Study Tour. They are
visiting organic farmers to learn additional farming techniques, so only
remaining staff and volunteers have been running the farm. The participants are
arriving Sunday night, and we are planning a welcome home party for them. We
are eager to meet these dedicated people from South Asian, South East Asian and
African countries!</div>
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participants are away – feeding chickens, pigs and fish and cleaning their
areas, harvesting vegetables (think cucumbers!), preparing meals, preparing
materials for ARI’s upcoming 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary and screening
materials for the 2014 applicants. We have been blessed with Japanese young
people from universities and student fellowships coming to volunteer for a
week. One group invited us to a barbecue where we sang together and watched a
fire dance! Now there are long term young volunteers from Germany, America,
Malaysia, Korea and Japan. We’re in the name learning
process, but working and planning together and listening to individual Morning
Gathering presentations helps us become familiar quickly. </div>
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areas until we have been in the country for two weeks. It’s been breakfast and
supper kitchen duty for us. With from 16- 30 people to prepare meals for, the
kitchen is a more relaxed place than it will be when 60-80 is the norm. The
third week in September, we are expecting to be cooking for 150! Each meal we
serve rice, soup, main course and a side dish or more. The produce, eggs and
pork all come from our farm. At ARI we constantly think about our connection to
the land and the food it produces for our bodies to use. We eat only what is in
season, but it is all delicious, and the cooks are so creative. One day we had
soybean falafel with fantastic cucumber yogurt sauce! Another night we enjoyed
a traditional Malay cake with a rice base and a yogurt blueberry top layer.
Tonight we are having a pork and fish barbecue, so I prepared good old American
potato salad. I learned how to make mayonnaise for the first time!</div>
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During the weekdays, we both help in the office. Joyce is
learning the process for managing the incoming travel documents of graduates
returning for the 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary in just two weeks. Profiles have
to be written about their activities since graduation. Bob and Joyce are
creating booklets with pages on each 2014 applicant. Staff will start the
screening process this week.</div>
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The new couple’s room in the just completed men’s dorm is
beautiful. It was lovingly prepared for us by JeenHae, complete with flowers
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Hi, Everyone. En route from Kathmandu to ARI, we have been gifted with one night and day in Singapore due to a flight cancellation! <br />
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On August 7, we reached our first destination in Nepal after five flights. Over two days worth of traveling is perhaps a bit much for our age, we have decided! We have learned so much about rural life in Nepal and the challenges ARI graduates face. Their leadership skills are being put to good use as they work to help provide basic education, raise awareness about women’s issues and encourage indigenous people to claim their rights. We have seen the many challenges a developing country faces, such as load scheduling of electricity, sanitation and road improvement. </div>
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Our first reunion was with 2010 ARI graduate, Sandeep Lamsal from Taulihawa in the Dang District. This is the Lower Terai, or plains of Nepal bordering India and is rice-growing country. It’s approaching the end of the rainy season and in the temperature hovers around 95 degrees. Sandeep guided us all around Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, on a scorching day. Of course we got seriously sunburned. The next morning our driver dodged goats as we drove along lush green paddy fields. We visited the ruins of the palace where the Buddha grew up as a crown prince. Later, we collapsed from either jet lag, sunstroke or both! We managed to meet and share meals with Sandeep’s family. </div>
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On August 10, we traveled to Ghorahi in the Upper Terai, a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains. It resembles the location of ARI! We were welcomed by Shanta and Ammar Chaudhary and their son Simon. Shanta is an ARI grad who also returned to be a Training Assistant. She works with BASE (Backward Society Education <a href="http://www.nepalbase.org/">www.nepalbase.org</a>), an NGO that helps provide education, works with women’s groups and advocates for the now freed bonded laborers to get land promised to them by the government. We kept hearing echoes of our own Civil Rights Movement.</div>
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Ammar and Shanta are members of the Tharu caste, indigenous people whose property and rights were taken away by a higher caste. Ammar works to educate all indigenous people about their rights and lobbies the government to recognize these rights in the constitution. In addition to their social work, the farming family grows rice, corn, vegetables and keeps three cows. They have a well but no tap water. Shanta cooks rice, potatoes, green beans, pumpkin leaf, chicken and soup (Joyce was thankful her dishes were not too spicy) on a two burner propane stove. Dishes are washed outdoors, and we enjoyed bathing in the stream after a hot day! If the sun had not shined, we would still have Simon. His joyful disposition kept us smiling, and he insisted that Bob Uncle and Joyce Auntie see him off on the school bus!</div>
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We visited three different schools. Each time we rode buses stuffed with passengers and crossed rivers where water flowed over concrete pads instead of under bridges! Joyce closed her eyes and prayed. Sister Home Boarding School was started by ARI grad Sayni Chaudhary. Primary students are taught Nepali, English and Social Studies by young teachers who either have their Bachelor’s degree or are working toward it. There is also a Women’s Learning Center where women meet to discuss their concerns and are trained in skills such as sewing.</div>
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Siddhartha Academy is a private school, both primary and secondary levels. The principle gave us a tour of the secondary school, where chemistry, biology and physics labs are still under construction. We spoke to two groups of 10th graders where everyone seems to want to be a doctor or an engineer. </div>
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In Tulsipur, we met the principle who started the government school twenty-two years ago with support from Shanta’s organization, BASE. He will retire in two years but dreams of a computer lab and a library before he leaves. Here, the children recited their lessons for more seasoned teachers.</div>
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We’ve had the privilege of being the first foreign guests in Ammar’s family home, the challenge of walking narrow foot paths through rice paddies, and an arduous 13 and a half hour bus ride from Ghorahi to Kathmandu. Tomorrow, ARI!</div>
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Joyce Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02905709719444916488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-4207604722209610062013-02-22T20:02:00.000-08:002013-02-22T20:02:30.766-08:00Planning for August trip back to ARIWe are beginning to plan for August trip back to ARIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-28355268628075814942011-03-25T11:40:00.000-07:002011-03-25T17:45:11.063-07:00cherry blossom mantle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyvecMrAWme5WPeyE-aKYZltNndPwyyrUqgj7hwi-Wf_wFwTSjZtOUEYykY64ThCzZQIH8MgV3K6KW_l6miD2_th-Sr4BmXvmp6Iw5q3Rk95eKsB0n5VXScrGxI4ii2kDfganRqCMmbE/s1600/CherryBlossoms-5247C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyvecMrAWme5WPeyE-aKYZltNndPwyyrUqgj7hwi-Wf_wFwTSjZtOUEYykY64ThCzZQIH8MgV3K6KW_l6miD2_th-Sr4BmXvmp6Iw5q3Rk95eKsB0n5VXScrGxI4ii2kDfganRqCMmbE/s320/CherryBlossoms-5247C.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <style>
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">6:30 Join the outdoor circle for 5 minute morning exercises via Japanese radio and the morning prayer. Meet briefly with your group to learn Foodlife duties. For half hour chores, Joyce goes to the feed mixing room for two months – sweeping the floor and breaking down Styrofoam boxes that held fish heads and tails and okara from tofu, which were used to make fermented animal feed. Bob goes to the men’s dorm to scrub the bathroom.</div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEK0D-ESbcySNH1afro7TV7pLzu1_qa0UeP8WjgF27d05xbdgcZ_X8yTWC0y2abxHb1a_hiDZDqhBCr41hc9rxMwHWtuCM27Cg8g3p-RPMFLhC-QIlPZaLK_Mxvm5JKfllTkKN1SKkzyk/s1600/Ann+ARI-Foodlife-5665.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEK0D-ESbcySNH1afro7TV7pLzu1_qa0UeP8WjgF27d05xbdgcZ_X8yTWC0y2abxHb1a_hiDZDqhBCr41hc9rxMwHWtuCM27Cg8g3p-RPMFLhC-QIlPZaLK_Mxvm5JKfllTkKN1SKkzyk/s200/Ann+ARI-Foodlife-5665.JPG" width="200" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">7:00 Foodlife time. In July, Bob and Joyce job share duties in Pig and Cow and Poultry sections. Joyce cleans manure from the cage-like farrowing pens of three sows and their piglets. Hose down the pens top and bottom. Mix feed for sows and make sure older piglets have enough milk powder. Bob turns the fermented floors with a pitchfork in the poultry house. Other volunteers and participants are working with us. We are so hot and sweaty by 8:00 that we choose showers and are late for breakfast.</div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-87582793699082840282010-08-21T01:18:00.000-07:002010-08-21T01:28:52.084-07:00Kyoto - August 5th<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcVtmRmS9zbjdYriDPPWDFeMOzBW9YNm2cbzbCLVf3MFGXz6C0GymOPLSyaO72Z5HtSxuQ4dY1VgfW0errb4Dhla1359Ux5ZDvoy3jtxXXvrlda5XrWrawTlMMFhzt830vwf-vUvnddk/s1600/GionCorner-6074C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcVtmRmS9zbjdYriDPPWDFeMOzBW9YNm2cbzbCLVf3MFGXz6C0GymOPLSyaO72Z5HtSxuQ4dY1VgfW0errb4Dhla1359Ux5ZDvoy3jtxXXvrlda5XrWrawTlMMFhzt830vwf-vUvnddk/s200/GionCorner-6074C.JPG" width="200" /></a>Joyce & I went to Gion Corner where she had seen the Bonraku puppets in 1991. We enjoyed an evening of tradional Japanese music and dance.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ36si7cVX-8fe1c9rD0RIVt0MZHwZWexGdu4eXwvkiwFTf6H05ophd2-bQcvKb8R6Fl05jtQg-34C5tu8p5T1ZNroSHdQJhLQfst-70vC91AGx9j4MVbWcEAedVHaof9X120aRk_a48M/s1600/Nijo-castle-6380C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ36si7cVX-8fe1c9rD0RIVt0MZHwZWexGdu4eXwvkiwFTf6H05ophd2-bQcvKb8R6Fl05jtQg-34C5tu8p5T1ZNroSHdQJhLQfst-70vC91AGx9j4MVbWcEAedVHaof9X120aRk_a48M/s200/Nijo-castle-6380C.jpg" width="200" /></a>On our second day in Kyoto we headed out on a bus tour. The Nijo Castle was the residence of the Tokugawa era Shogan who was the administrative head of Japan. It had massive stone walls to fortify it and the Shogun was always concerned with survival. The nightingale floors of the hall ways chirped as you walked.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlK7-isjpv_w7T3OZeAxkF2rDpb2auqwtvgsNvEvBfXrXwNZ0rXeKC4wpUapjCNwB7zg7Xw0H10SzhPKlYBjHeTtA34_wcp9Sm2R6VABmkLUpI97RJau6v-SpXrKy_lKqoJMaY_oSDik/s1600/GoldenPalace-6418.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlK7-isjpv_w7T3OZeAxkF2rDpb2auqwtvgsNvEvBfXrXwNZ0rXeKC4wpUapjCNwB7zg7Xw0H10SzhPKlYBjHeTtA34_wcp9Sm2R6VABmkLUpI97RJau6v-SpXrKy_lKqoJMaY_oSDik/s320/GoldenPalace-6418.JPG" /></a>The Temple of the Golden pravillion (Kinkaku-ji ) was once the summer home of Yoshimitsu, the 3rd Shogun of Ashikaga. When he died, his son fo llowed his father wishes to convert it into a temple.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-81911489535893496042010-08-19T04:39:00.000-07:002010-08-21T01:40:32.208-07:00Kyoto - August 4th<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX69dFBojKtfKyY03TI5hxVnjHUsuNgtZHUnMIbqup83eLJNI8R5bBrnkIvOcL1ySVkfqNZzMdiicQs6WgxSZJDjl_pxZx8dSvF-wM9O6iuMaLfvl_D4tBBSYGsCWEcjshbi8deD5fcyQ/s1600/Fushimi-Inari-6256.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX69dFBojKtfKyY03TI5hxVnjHUsuNgtZHUnMIbqup83eLJNI8R5bBrnkIvOcL1ySVkfqNZzMdiicQs6WgxSZJDjl_pxZx8dSvF-wM9O6iuMaLfvl_D4tBBSYGsCWEcjshbi8deD5fcyQ/s320/Fushimi-Inari-6256.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
The first day in Kyoto, we headed south to the Fushimi-Inari shrine, the shrine of a Thousand Torii gates. They are so close together that they form a tunnel up the hill side from shrine to temple to shrine.<br />
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Underneath one of the temple buildings is a pitch dark space where you can follow a chain of woodern monk's beads strung on a cord around narrow passage ways and corners. It is close to going to the spiritual womb. And quite scary. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-41314664990807169922010-08-11T04:35:00.000-07:002010-08-19T05:05:36.686-07:00Miyajima<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1Lwop5Xxoes9WylE8XLb0N4Reio9ckbZL2l0qQfVBAxmN0JJ3hsiTVoOSikzcY131FpxLdymlkubdgqSyg9m02_mZHI-K0AejQcd8lu93bMyD91WVhqWztJi8MZqymDhdPeo7HOpBKE/s1600/Itsukushima-Otorii-5998C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1Lwop5Xxoes9WylE8XLb0N4Reio9ckbZL2l0qQfVBAxmN0JJ3hsiTVoOSikzcY131FpxLdymlkubdgqSyg9m02_mZHI-K0AejQcd8lu93bMyD91WVhqWztJi8MZqymDhdPeo7HOpBKE/s200/Itsukushima-Otorii-5998C.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>We arrived in Hiroshima and got an early start for Miyajima island by rail and JR ferry in the morning. The Itsukushima Otorii gate is only surrounded by the inland sea for a few hours at high tide.On August 3rd we were lucky to be there long enough for the tide to come in and surround the Otorii gate at the Itsukushima shrine.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhblHb0AcUWeHF-GaTZkJimYSUAM6Sj2mr5RGP0YEddzP0X-DyfVrxL42rzv088gTKxp7RyEToUeEoRCuuvtXrfBzjt-sXLhGR9EAbKKEReYAcTQ3Eqnw8OdstvLDl4XW3uBxtUwIq2xY0/s1600/Yamaguchi-Temple-5905.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhblHb0AcUWeHF-GaTZkJimYSUAM6Sj2mr5RGP0YEddzP0X-DyfVrxL42rzv088gTKxp7RyEToUeEoRCuuvtXrfBzjt-sXLhGR9EAbKKEReYAcTQ3Eqnw8OdstvLDl4XW3uBxtUwIq2xY0/s320/Yamaguchi-Temple-5905.JPG" width="320" /></a>We visited the Akiyoshido Cave and many sites in Yamaguchi, including this beautiful temple and its 5 story pagoda.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-36337935964549257142010-08-07T01:37:00.000-07:002010-08-08T18:59:08.433-07:00ARI's Labyrinth Peace Walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXM3S3sr367nhyqJR3aNFMT0yysBd3heIHwdnn907I5vzSUp3mLRVQnZCjgsYWcoBgu_5TVhknznMauUP3MRuHCgVeaptxMyfr9Rr9FxGAtdW1ceKeHDAqD24x8B08X6qqq6LJgaeBts/s1600/ARI-Peace-walk-6175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXM3S3sr367nhyqJR3aNFMT0yysBd3heIHwdnn907I5vzSUp3mLRVQnZCjgsYWcoBgu_5TVhknznMauUP3MRuHCgVeaptxMyfr9Rr9FxGAtdW1ceKeHDAqD24x8B08X6qqq6LJgaeBts/s200/ARI-Peace-walk-6175.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>ARI's Labyrinth Peace Walk. Luminaries glowing at dusk. People from 21 countries carrying origami cranes. One circuitous path seemingly leading away from the center, but always drawing closer. The soft music of three guitars. One voice singing John Lennon's "Imagine." Around 75 ARI community members praying for peace. Even the ever-singing cicadas seemed to respect the moment.<br />
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</div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Joyce explained the purpose and how to walk a labyrinth. Otsu sensei, ARI's director, opened the labyrinth walk with prayer. Mitsuru san, Jun san and Gil san strummed their guitars while everyone picked up a crane, slowly walked in, placed their crane on the altar table and walked out. </div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Highlights of our vacation were the Thai dinner cruise on the antique rice barge and lunch at the Oriental Hotel’s Thai buffet. Much Thai food is spicy hot, but the heat can be adjusted, and some places willingly do this.<br />
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The visit to Wat Arun was a beautiful sunny day, just too hot. The pictures came out great.<br />
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Wat Arun<br />
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Japan’s rainy days welcomed us back. We have new visas and will be here at ARI until the end of August.<br />
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In the mornings we visited many wats (Buddhist temples). They are all elaborately decorated with gold, mirrored mosaics and ceramic tiles. The Reclining Buddha is immense, the Golden Buddha serene, and the Emerald Buddha is really jade. At every wat, the Thai people offered lotus blossoms, burned incense and prayed.<br />
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Our hotel was on the river, so the water taxis were convenient, fast and cheap. We preferred this transportation to traffic jams and tuk-tuk drivers and their buddies who offered to guide us to places we weren’t interested in. We learned to beware of friendly locals welcoming us and informing us that the attraction we were headed for was closed for some reason!<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">The Reclining Buddha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uwXVNRM87yFA1mJO9eTsV7c0jQgxpMgkvM-NP3dQr_XywGtNsD0nJi8w1PNZmCWxRvFtSZhOXsBJy-a83rGhdKGyKBumh3nw_kJG2sjblZ2ZfwpcPwWmWDqiIpKjvgmwrCemmA93GFc/s1600/Wat-Po-5139C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uwXVNRM87yFA1mJO9eTsV7c0jQgxpMgkvM-NP3dQr_XywGtNsD0nJi8w1PNZmCWxRvFtSZhOXsBJy-a83rGhdKGyKBumh3nw_kJG2sjblZ2ZfwpcPwWmWDqiIpKjvgmwrCemmA93GFc/s320/Wat-Po-5139C.JPG" /></a></div><br />
We were lucky to find the Monks at Wat Po chanting publicly.<br />
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Buddhist Monks at Wat PoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-72252644767078808752010-07-01T05:19:00.000-07:002010-07-17T02:37:43.638-07:00Visit to Nikko on June 12<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKCjxhsT60TVvDyjV-F3LRkeVieBenjgWuJJFa_zK9a3_bBfXbaybwLujeCKf0zFaynvkELe0jssnPKDjhxHVs-2k-NSsOfZxcFztiZ_A5-8Pc8esmG75bqyODrnJQsVTmYUNoLqyLL4/s1600/Nikko-ShinkyoBridge-4569C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKCjxhsT60TVvDyjV-F3LRkeVieBenjgWuJJFa_zK9a3_bBfXbaybwLujeCKf0zFaynvkELe0jssnPKDjhxHVs-2k-NSsOfZxcFztiZ_A5-8Pc8esmG75bqyODrnJQsVTmYUNoLqyLL4/s200/Nikko-ShinkyoBridge-4569C.JPG" width="200" /></a>We visited Nikko World hertitage site. On the street of Nikko, we stopped to take a picture of a team preparing to carry a portable shire up the mountain and were invited to have some sake at 10:00AM. <br />
The Shinkyo Bridge is the link between the city and the shrines across the river.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">The Toshogu Shrine is dedicated to the Shogun who unified Japan. In side of its Torii gate,there are many beautiful building, many of which I would like to include here. So much color and so much gold.</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: right;">Toshogu Shrine</div><div class="" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUwrCjXsm9ON1gdHQ6tk-ZifiiSkfkwq-Dx0LWIHSYVZFes5NAEOJBWUDzb3Qhbeen6fTO9w_2qbk4au3Vmije-YxHMO-D9VbtUyEZbBOgLFXYPKXuLUq5c_-O0rws5IgxUIKxdtS-L0/s1600/Futarasan-Shrine-4719.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUwrCjXsm9ON1gdHQ6tk-ZifiiSkfkwq-Dx0LWIHSYVZFes5NAEOJBWUDzb3Qhbeen6fTO9w_2qbk4au3Vmije-YxHMO-D9VbtUyEZbBOgLFXYPKXuLUq5c_-O0rws5IgxUIKxdtS-L0/s320/Futarasan-Shrine-4719.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br />
There are many, many individual shrines and temples close together, so I have only named the major ones, - Toshogu Shrine, Futarasan Shrine, Taiyuin shrine, Rinnoji Temple, and the Abbott's garden.<br />
It was a photographer's festival.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Futarasan Shrine had such a colorful ceiling, I had to get down on my knees to get a good shot.</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-30186364950401570032010-06-07T03:56:00.000-07:002010-06-07T04:07:46.819-07:00ARI Rice Planting Day & Celebration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmB4qcSDen5ZdDm5YwQ5nsSY-motJMT1w6FX-6Jaci-b20RIETRYw1gddwbCaXYw7bauilrOnTa21i8uWgbuJ6ylPs0TScuqzYBepGWlZSI7_mwND_pCDri-eLvxsx50fZsMxI-t8dam4/s1600/Joy-RP65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmB4qcSDen5ZdDm5YwQ5nsSY-motJMT1w6FX-6Jaci-b20RIETRYw1gddwbCaXYw7bauilrOnTa21i8uWgbuJ6ylPs0TScuqzYBepGWlZSI7_mwND_pCDri-eLvxsx50fZsMxI-t8dam4/s320/Joy-RP65.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We planted the smaller rice patties by hand. In some, we were wading barefoot in 6-8 inches of mud. Joyce is working in a team to transplant rice seedlings in rows in a naturally planted patty. The ARI team finished a majority of the transplanting in one day.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtd_sOW4SkBvSBu_YuVFpgqd-S1uvST-rNKtvHfGG3_wv_F4VuK2mXpjEtEngGRQAdFUxHoDks1HkKH7fce9AzvGlZJEY1ZeiPLG-NtBZpOfFdsDmDvgi7XeKEC5w_Saxu58JKiIf2-o/s1600/ARI-RicePlanting1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtd_sOW4SkBvSBu_YuVFpgqd-S1uvST-rNKtvHfGG3_wv_F4VuK2mXpjEtEngGRQAdFUxHoDks1HkKH7fce9AzvGlZJEY1ZeiPLG-NtBZpOfFdsDmDvgi7XeKEC5w_Saxu58JKiIf2-o/s320/ARI-RicePlanting1.JPG" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-47275817366487025132010-06-05T20:47:00.000-07:002010-06-06T04:52:38.536-07:00Utsunomiya Visit<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZoOW-lZOO1aEx25q0yvLD8sPtO2YFX9pBpbhMFVNmp5VebugUgfRy75WmHZsbI0VgNFqlccTSFVPIPRJX6YzXnFEWQuMz1N7cNoTvWWW6i67pU98j6xjnbOIo_RBew-wtwMgcwXx5Ho/s1600/OyaKannon-4414Bw.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZoOW-lZOO1aEx25q0yvLD8sPtO2YFX9pBpbhMFVNmp5VebugUgfRy75WmHZsbI0VgNFqlccTSFVPIPRJX6YzXnFEWQuMz1N7cNoTvWWW6i67pU98j6xjnbOIo_RBew-wtwMgcwXx5Ho/s320/OyaKannon-4414Bw.JPG" /></a>Last Saturday we left ARI and entered Japan on our own. We took the train to Utsunomiya and mastered the bus system. The local information booth was a great help, and once again, we experienced the kindness of the Japanese people. Concentrating on gathering correct change for our bus stop, we left the backpack on the bus! After the bus drove away, we stood on the sidewalk checking the map. Suddenly, a woman came running toward us pointing to a backpack in her hand. She had noticed it on the seat and told the driver to stop the bus so she could deliver it to us! <br />
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This 88-foot Heiwa Kannon statue was hand carved from soft volcanic stone in the Oya Stone Village. It is a WW II memorial to those who died and to peace. We climbed up to elbow height for a look around.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808482594889556557.post-9283735776409106572010-06-05T20:43:00.000-07:002010-06-06T04:51:56.458-07:00Oya Cave & Oyaji Temple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKSG2VZ0bDWIhkjdhBp7pQw1iGcT7OKeWDU6frfO_UaVBue_xMqT6KI1EPDfrmZWnM45l57M5DNmOcPtdIE-nG-qMLSEZ3Nr_Lz2_Xd9F40BMN0x0F0Br1PAXO-x5Dtz6Cd4S59NmaD0/s1600/OyaCave-4406w.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKSG2VZ0bDWIhkjdhBp7pQw1iGcT7OKeWDU6frfO_UaVBue_xMqT6KI1EPDfrmZWnM45l57M5DNmOcPtdIE-nG-qMLSEZ3Nr_Lz2_Xd9F40BMN0x0F0Br1PAXO-x5Dtz6Cd4S59NmaD0/s320/OyaCave-4406w.JPG" /></a></div>At nearby Oyaji Temple, set at the entrance to Oya Cave, we saw the mystical 9th century Senjyu Kannon Bosatsu carved into the stone. This Buddha image has hands clasped in prayer, but many more arms radiate from the body. It is quite sobering to gaze at this 1200-year-old carving! A series of nine additional Buddha images are carved in relief on the cave walls. They are the oldest Buddhist reliefs in Japan.<br />
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In the prefectural museum, we were excited to see a Hamada pottery collection. Hamada, Shoji is a National Treasure in Japan, and we imagine our master potter friend Gerry Williams must have met him at some point. Hamada believes in the functionality of pots, as Gerry does. We saw some lovely glazes and designs.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00472035515437246728noreply@blogger.com0