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Another New Year to Celebrate

Dec 30, 2019 3

Note: every year I like to “repost” this blog about a Memorable New Year’s Eve.  Enjoy Years ago I went to Kyoto and celebrated New Year’s with my family.  When I returned I wrote a column for the Grand Rapids Press about the experience.  Once I started my blog, I developed the tradition...

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Asia, Japan

New Year Remembered

Dec 31, 2017 6

Note: every year I like to “repost” this blog about a Memorable New Year’s Eve.  Enjoy When the big bell in Kyoto rings on New Years Eve, it gongs to erase the 108 worldly desires man is born with. For me, it rang to mark a new phase in my role as a mother. Like the New […]

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Asia, Japan

New Year’s Memory

Dec 30, 2014 4

    Note: every year I like to “repost” this blog about a Memorable New Year’s Eve.  Enjoy   When the big bell in Kyoto rings on New Years Eve, it gongs to erase the 108 worldly desires man is born with. For me, it rang to mark a new phase in my role as a mother. […]

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Asia

Remembering a Memorable New Year’s Eve

Dec 30, 2012 0

    Note: every year I like to “repost” this blog about a Memorable New Year’s Eve.  Enjoy   When the big bell in Kyoto rings on New Years Eve, it gongs to erase the 108 worldly desires man is born with. For me, it rang to mark a new phase in my role as […]

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Asia, Travel A Ha's

Ringing in the New Year in Kyoto, Japan

Dec 29, 2009 5

When the big bell in Kyoto rings on New Years Eve, it gongs to erase the 108 worldly desires man is born with. For me, it rang to mark a new phase in my role as a mother. Like the New Year’s celebration in Japan, the realization of the change was a process, not a […]

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