One Hand Speaks

That's All Folks! This is my last One Hand Speaks storytelling podcast. Many thanks to everyone who has listened and I hope I at least made you smile, laugh, and contemplate.

The future is wide open. As I record this podcast, this is how I see the path forward for my life.

My life has changed a lot in the past 6 years. As I look forward into the great unknown of my life, I am excited to see how my life will unfold.

As I age, think about retirement, and consider what my life will look like after my mother passes, I have a deep and sincere desire to own less.

It is that time... I am contemplating my path to retirement.

I am working to getting Citizenship by Decent in Italy or Mexico. Both if possible.

After almost 9 years of sharing and broadcasting the One Hands Speaks storytelling podcast, I will be bringing it to a close before 2025 comes to an end.

For the past 15 months, I have been teaching Buddhism to inmates in a prison.

I love my 2004 video iPod. I still have it and it works like a champ.

My mother and I just got over the hump of the olive processing for 2025. And what a hump it was!

A short and sweet story about a flirty moment I shared with a young lady at Adobe Max 2018 in Los Angeles.

This year I had the opportunity to attend the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday celebration in India. This is the story of how I missed it.

International travel with my 80 year old mother has both interesting insight into traveling with my mother and someone who is 80 years of age.

A series of experiences as my mother and I took the 3 flights to get to Oaxaca, Mexico which had one handed overtones.

Sharing some words about my easy, smooth, and relaxed travel to Kathmandu, Nepal this year.

These are a series of short and humorous stories of my one-handed interactions while in Nepal this year.

Today I had an experience that I enjoy regarding the sun and heat. Today was one of the first and truly beautiful days. I love the heat and I yearn for Winter to end and Spring to blossom. I love the heat. And this is just a short story of one of my favorite  first-of-the-year, "I love the heat" experiences.

I will be leaving soon for my fifth visit and pilgrimage to Nepal. This is what I have to say.

Last year during my fourth visit and pilgrimage to Nepal, I took 5 days to pilgrimage in Bhutan. At that time I had been wanting to visit the Tiger's Nest Monastery for over eighteen years. In 2024 I was able to afford and plan in advance my short yet profound 5-day pilgrimage to Bhutan and Paro Taktsang. Also known as the Tiger's Nest Monastery -- a sacred Vajrayana Himalayan Buddhist temple located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan

One day while I was teaching Aikido at my dojo, 3 Shapes Aikido, in Boise's Historic North End community, a young Japanese lady walked through the door. Her name was Junko Ikuta. From the moment she arrived until the moment she departed, she left an indelible mark on our dojo, our dojo community, and on me. For the past 15 years I have thought about her often and certainly every year on May Day, my favorite holiday. After she left our dojo and Idaho we would communicate a few times a year through social media. Then one day it stopped and I heard the news...  Junko left the party of life.