Tomorrow is Hachigatsu Bon, or the August celebration of Obon. What is Obon? It is a Japanese Buddhist festival held in honor of the dead, similar to the Mexican Day of the Dead. Offerings are made to one's ancestors to make their time in the afterlife more comfortable, and paper lanterns called toro nagashi are lit and floated on the water to signal the spirits' return to... well, wherever it is they return to. To be honest I am not very well informed on Japanese theological matters and I've not have much luck finding good sources of information.
8/7/10
Which Is the First of (Hopefully) Many Recipes
Anyone who knows me knows I have a mild addiction to tea. That may be putting it mildly. During the winter months in Charlottesville and Boston this year, I found myself consuming record-breaking (for me, at least) quantities, sometimes in the realm of 15 cups a day. It was a great way to stay warm and an even better way to procrastinate from writing. It's entirely possible that my roommates mistook a teacup for an extension of my hand, since I was very rarely without one.
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