Welcome/Kia ora Koutou!
A brief run down on me:
My name is Monica, originally from Wellington New Zealand. In 2009 my husband and I decided to pack up and move to Japan to experience the dream of living abroad as a family.
For the past 10 years my career background has been in Early Childhood Education, graduating with a Bachelor of Education Teach ECE in 2003.
I am lucky to be married to a man with some amazing domestic skills, and has taken over the full time caregiving of our 3 children while I take a break going back to work.
This blog is a bit of a work in progress and a mish mash on family adventures, Japanese art/culture, design, and Early Childhood education.
My moto is to appreciate the simple things in life, and I'm a big fan of the wabisabi world view. If your not familiar with this term.....
"Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is a concept derived from the buddist assertion of the three marks of existence, specifically impermanence. Characteristics of Wabi-sabi include asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, austerity, modesty, intimacy, appreciation of the ingenuous and integrity of natural objects and processes"
(compliments of wikipedia)
My name is Monica, originally from Wellington New Zealand. In 2009 my husband and I decided to pack up and move to Japan to experience the dream of living abroad as a family.
For the past 10 years my career background has been in Early Childhood Education, graduating with a Bachelor of Education Teach ECE in 2003.
I am lucky to be married to a man with some amazing domestic skills, and has taken over the full time caregiving of our 3 children while I take a break going back to work.
This blog is a bit of a work in progress and a mish mash on family adventures, Japanese art/culture, design, and Early Childhood education.
My moto is to appreciate the simple things in life, and I'm a big fan of the wabisabi world view. If your not familiar with this term.....
"Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is a concept derived from the buddist assertion of the three marks of existence, specifically impermanence. Characteristics of Wabi-sabi include asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, austerity, modesty, intimacy, appreciation of the ingenuous and integrity of natural objects and processes"
(compliments of wikipedia)
