Sunday, June 17, 2012

the fathers in our lives (2)

snowshoer daruma for my husband

angler daruma for my father

photographer daruma for my father-in-law

12 comments:

  1. These are wonderful...put me in mind of Bodhidharma! Happy father's day indeed to your husband, father & father in law!!

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    1. These three are part of my on-going daruma (dharma)doll series that began with this post, which itself was part of my earthquake/tsunami series: http://etegamibydosankodebbie.blogspot.jp/2011/03/humanizing-quake-gunma.html

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    2. Ah, thank you for the link to the background. What a thoughtful post. And I had never come across daruma before, but love the idea of fall seven times, rise again eight.

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  2. Hello!
    I just found out about etegami. Really interesting!

    Please include subscription tools on your blog because I would like to subscribe (like rss buttons or even simpler tools).

    Thank you very much!
    I wish you all the best and I'll be revisiting soon!
    Tiberius

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    1. Thank you, Tiberius, for visiting, and I hope to "see" you again. I already have two options on the right-hand sidebar for you to subscribe to this blog. The "Follow" button and the "subscribe" button. But I'll see what else I can add.

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    2. Thank you very much Mrs. Dosanko!
      It's the "subscribe by email" thing that is most handy (sorry if it was there and I missed it!)

      Best wishes!
      Tiberius

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  3. How nice of you to honor all three.

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  4. I totally agree, fathers are irreplaceable. What a lovely tribute. I also really love your "secret" post. Beautiful, and the poem really speaks to me.

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  5. Dear Debbie,
    Very nice!! I enjoyed the post so much and realized that you're living in between Japanese and English world. I always wonder how a wife call husband "Father(not "Honey)" in Japaneseʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ.
    Cheers,wink,wink, Sadami

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    1. Sadamiさん、考え過ぎですよ。(笑)I don't call my husband "father" and I don't call him "honey." I call him by his name. But he is a father to my children. A good father. This is the first year I have made him a Father's Day card.

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  6. debora sannhe

    デボラさんのは、いつも、じーーーーんときます。
    心あったかね。

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  7. So true. I just lost mine last Fall. That is a nice tribute.

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