Harikuyo

Harikuyo is a memorial service held in shrines and temples in Japan for the broken sewing needles of the past year.

I think that might be one of the most intriguing traditions I’ve ever heard, and since the day I first read about it I’ve been fascinated. So that’s what this blog will be….a memorial of broken sewing needles, ideas that have not yet come to fruition, plans that have been torn down, questions in process and thoughts that need to be written down in order to start to figure them out.
Feb 02
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Probably the most unflattering picture ever, but this is what this poor guy was dealing with for more than a week…see that huge blister on his top gum? Thankfully that disappeared on Sunday and has been replaced by a BIG tooth that’s come down far enough already that as of this morning Gray’s figured out how to clack his top and bottom teeth together. At first I thought he somehow had a plastic cap in his mouth, but after several sweeps of his mouth realized it was just his teeth clacking. With the addition of this top tooth, his toothless wonder days are really a thing of the past.

Probably the most unflattering picture ever, but this is what this poor guy was dealing with for more than a week…see that huge blister on his top gum? Thankfully that disappeared on Sunday and has been replaced by a BIG tooth that’s come down far enough already that as of this morning Gray’s figured out how to clack his top and bottom teeth together. At first I thought he somehow had a plastic cap in his mouth, but after several sweeps of his mouth realized it was just his teeth clacking. With the addition of this top tooth, his toothless wonder days are really a thing of the past.