artyartie

I should have updated my journal yesterday, when I had some energy and liveliness in me. It's pretty much gone today - after waking up, breakfasting, and lingering on the couch for an hour or so, I came up and slept for about 4 hours. Sigh. Maybe it is just the fact i have to be up at 5:30 every day - may as well go with the simple explanation. But as melancholic as today was, though it ended better than it started, yesterday was good. Got to feel like a city girl walking downtown from Colfax and York, stopped in at the bookstore and visited with people, then finally made it to the Sakura Matsuri (Cherry-Blossom Festival). Yes, Denver has their sakura matsuri in June when there isn't a single blossom to be found. But when there are blossoms, well, we get random snow then. But there were tons of crafts, samples (wakame salad = oishii!), demonstration and I even registered for the National Bone Marrow Registry. Felt really good about that. They had opened up the Buddhist temple and had many of the more elaborate exhibits in there, namely the bonsai and the ikebana, and the priest (or whatever title they have) was giving a mini lecture/sermon on Buddhism. Wow. I haven't felt that calm and at peace in a long time, just listening to him.

Meh. I'm heading to bed so maybe tomorrow I'm not so tired. Heard back from my sister last night, which was good. Now if I could only hear from all my scattered friends and family, that'd be wonderful.