Well, my three young kids have been away three of the past five weeks, but last night they finally got back here for the rest of the summer.
I'm happy. Today, we gathered a few of the cherry tomatoes that are ripening before my eyes all over the backyard, salted them, and ate them either with a single pop or mixed into a salad of lettuces, carrots, cabbages, and some summer potato salad, spiced with fresh green pepper.
Before you eat, if you are Japanese, you thank the food that has given its life so as to sustain you: "Itadakimasu."
After you've eaten, you thank both the food and the people who've served you: "Gochisosama."
Try it the next time you leave a Japanese restaurant, and you will the proprietor very, very happy.
My very young artist is back home and here is one of her latest works, an abstract.
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