The support I've received from family and friends (you guys!) has been incredible, and it has really helped me over the last couple of months. I don't know what to say except thank you. That just doesn't seem to express how much it means to me...Today I got a very cool present in the mail from my cousin Tom and his wife Donna. It's a Japanese daruma doll for making wishes. I haven't made my wish yet, but I am about to do that and fill in one eye.
Check out the Wikipedia definition:
Daruma dolls (達磨 daruma), also known as dharma dolls, are hollow and round Japanese wish dolls with no arms or legs, modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder and first patriarch of Zen.[1] Typical colors are red (most common), yellow, green, and white. The doll has a face with a mustache and beard, but its eyes only contain the color white. Using black ink, one fills in a single circular eye while thinking of a wish. Should the wish later come true, the second eye is filled in. It is traditional to fill in the right eye first; the left eye is left blank until the wish is fulfilled.
I predict the left eye will be filled in in the not-too-distant future!
ReplyDeleteThis is great. He looks like that because he spent years staring at a wall without moving. They called it meditation back then, but most people today find that the TV will do.
ReplyDeleteWe're all cheering for you to get both eyes back to him.
Oh, at first I thought it was a self-protrait, HA! The photo makes the thing look like it is 4 feet in diameter. Say, your mom got a nice write up, photo and even some spoken words. Go mom.
ReplyDelete...make that write up, photo and words "in the local daily."
ReplyDeletevery cool! can't wait to see two black eyes soon! love, mary
ReplyDeleteI don't want a wink...I want two black eyes!
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