Shoji Arts Blog

Misgivings about thanksgiving

November 19, 2022
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Let gratitude equal respect.

After a lifetime of misgivings about thanksgiving, it has taken me some years to crystallize what I believe today.

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Ribbon Cutting

March 4, 2021
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At its base, Shoji Arts is about health. Health for the whole body, mind and spirit. Health for ourselves and health for our communities.

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End White Silence

January 7, 2021
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I want to say that the deep-double-standard of the USA is being white, vs. being-anything-but-white.  I’m going to try to write this diplomatically; in some ways I feel privileged to understand this because I know what it means in many ways to be white.  Therefore I am a responsibility bearer to ending white silence.  And I know what it means to be not-white as well.

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Melting Pot Culture: Filipino American History Month

October 22, 2020
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There’s Lola, my grandmother, with my brother and her anthirium.  It’s Christmas in Naples, Florida, 1988.  I know I’ve been into the retro photos lately, as my aunt has passed them on.  But upon seeing the anthirium plant, I couldn’t help but post again.  I have an anthirium in my home right now and also…

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