Friday food treat: Sake
We cannot visit Japan without trying some sake. There is a lot to know about it too – how to serve it, how to drink it and how it is made. One thing we already know – is how to enjoy it!
We cannot visit Japan without trying some sake. There is a lot to know about it too – how to serve it, how to drink it and how it is made. One thing we already know – is how to enjoy it!
Change is the end result of all true learning.
~Leo Buscaglia
Have you ever heard the term “unlearning”? It is just as important to progress as learning is. It is not about forgetting. It is a whole different way of looking at learning.
No matter how deep a study you make, what you really have to rely on is your own intuition. And when it comes down to it, you really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Exploring Japanese cuisine is just one of the delights that await us. Today’s experimentation was minor, but ascertaining the contents of packages is going to be fun. This one had savoury rice cracker snacks in it. There are all manner of snacks available – both salty and sweet. Fortunately the packaging showed the contents so we were confident in our purchase.
A great story is memorable. It stays with you. The connection of ideas develops into a problem, its resolution and the characters that mobilise the narrative and appeal to our humanity. Not all stories hook us in. Some appeal to a common experience, others to a yearning within. That is the power of the cause – our fourth storytelling truth.
Five shots from Mt Hotham in recent weeks. Beautiful scenery and abundant snow. A great place to be in the white, or the green.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein
One of the requirements of the 21st century is to be agile. Agility in learning is a wonderful trait, but is it easy to cultivate?
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
~ Horace