{"id":608,"date":"2008-05-16T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2008-05-16T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:23:09","slug":"sayonara-weber-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Sayonara, Weber Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>79!\u00a0 bar steep fall\u00a0 29.62 5mph WSW dewpoint 35\u00a0 Beltane, sunny<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon<\/p>\n<p>The final Weber tours.\u00a0 A Japanese language class from Kennedy HS in Bloomington and a small group of stunned ladies of a certain age.\u00a0 Neither tour was a flop, neither an engaging and vital time.\u00a0 The Kennedy group had a few kids that were present the whole way, interest.\u00a0 One young lady took out a notebook and started writing.\u00a0 The second seemed timid, afraid to respond to inquiry, interested but reticent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end a woman told me she&#8217;d seen a Bhutan exhibit in Honolulu.\u00a0 &#8220;The objects came with five Buddhist monks.\u00a0 They came to bless the statues with water each morning.\u00a0 Since in Buhtan, they received this sprinkling directly, but\u00a0were in cases like this,&#8221;\u00a0 she indicated the Nara Buddha at the beginning of the show, &#8220;they had, oh, I don&#8217;t know, a tupperware container,&#8221;\u00a0 she spread her hands out and formed a large sloppy rectangle, &#8220;It had water.\u00a0 Then they had a mirror.\u00a0 They got the objects reflection in the mirror and sprinkled that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sayonara, Weber collection and bon voyage.<\/p>\n<p>I have a long stretch of days with little planned.\u00a0 No docent classes, no tours, no preaching, no social engagements.\u00a0 The right time to garden and to write.<\/p>\n<p>Jon called while I was writing this.\u00a0 They\u00a0want to have the bris\u00a0on June 2nd or 3rd.\u00a0\u00a0Could I come?\u00a0 I&#8217;m there.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to see Gabe and Ruth, to see Jon&#8217;s garden and Jen with her new brood.<\/p>\n<p>On to the treadmill.\u00a0 I try not to remember this, but apparently in Victorian jails, prisoner powered treadmills were a form of human as donkey labor.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure but that may be where the term comes from in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>79!\u00a0 bar steep fall\u00a0 29.62 5mph WSW dewpoint 35\u00a0 Beltane, sunny \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon The final Weber tours.\u00a0 A Japanese language class from Kennedy HS in Bloomington and a small group of stunned ladies of a certain age.\u00a0 Neither tour was a flop, neither an engaging and vital time.\u00a0 The Kennedy group had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sayonara, Weber Collection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,65],"tags":[4337,408,329,118],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-family","tag-art","tag-gabe","tag-japan","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}