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Yes, we have a winner Three Wolf Moon Haiku! To those of you who submitted haiku, thank you all — I hope you enjoyed composing them as much I did reading them. All the entries were excellent, from evocative to hilarious, and it was hard to pick a winner. So I dillied and I dallied and hemmed and hawed and in-between all the giggling I finally enlisted the aid of another judge to help me out. So the winner is … Kip, for her haiku below. A very properly haiku-y first line replete with exclamation, a second line that embodies the whole TWM fiasco and that shark line gets me every time.
So lucky Kip gets a tee! (Sorry, no shark tees here.)
A little while ago I was tickled to see some Rotem Gear tops featured in a fashion blog from Spain. When I popped over there in order to add them my blog list and looked around, I found that MundoChica is much more than a shopping blog; it’s plump with some fun looks at fashion throughout the ages and around the world. One video I immediately found on MundoChica shows a maiko, or apprentice geisha, going through the pain-staking process of applying her make-up. It’s a bit long, but the transformation is amazing and quite interesting, if you haven’t seen such a thing before.
By the way, for those who do not know, geisha are not, have never been, prostitutes. The word is generally mis-used. Gei means “art” and sha “person” (hmph, my kanji are not showing up after publishing, must learn how to do that in WordPress) so a geisha is someone who is steeped in the arts, in this case, singing, dancing, tea ceremony, engaging in witty conversation and banter — all activities for which geisha train for years — and making guests feel welcome and happy. A girl can become maiko at around 17 (generations ago it was around 12); modern Japanese law requires children to attend school through age 16.
Sometimes described as tattoo -inspired, henna-like or even art deco, this design always gets comments when I go out with it on. Just last week at a networking event, I was ordering a cuppa in Starbucks when the young guy barista said “Hey, I really like your scarf! Can I see the design?” He was bowled over when I told him it was my design and that I sell them. Do I need to tell you how much this made my day?! Thank you, friendly Barista Guy! Anyway, if scarves are not your thing, or if you’re just feeling like an out-of-the-ordinary top for this fine late-spring weather, take a look, as they are available in a huge range of style, colors and fabrics, including organics. By the way, that networking thing? It was a fun Happy HARO Hour at the Farmer’s Market on Fairfax with the inimitable Peter Shankman of the Help a Reporter Out newsletter, my favorite PR tool! (Um, the newsletter, not Peter.) We drank, we schmoozed, we took bad pictures. It was great to actually meet the guy behind HARO. Maybe you couldn’t find me in the last blog post’s photo, but can you find me in THIS photo?
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