1 January 2009 Happy Cow Year!
Happy new year to everybody. I hope 2009 is at least as good as 2008.
The plaque below is a piece of pottery given to me by my potter friend Koji Kamada (鎌田幸二). The character is that of cow when used in context of the Chinese zodiac, because that’s what 2009 is. He gave me this plaque because I was born in the year of the cow three cycles ago. I think it’s quite beautful, like all his stuff, despite the fact that I cannot drink whiskey out of it.
Year of the Cow
Here is the plaque up on our dining room wall, with the detritus of 2008 showing beyond.
Old and new coexisting briefly
1 comment in “Happy Cow Year!”
January 4th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Happy New Year! According to Chinese zodiac signs I’m a year of the cow, too, so you’re exactly one cycle behind me. (My daughter, born a year of the tiger in September, and I have this long-running argument of what my year is. I grew up in Japan believing I was a tiger-year girl, but she insists I must go by the lunar calendar, which puts my b-day, Jan. 15, still in the old year, i.e., the year of the cow. I prefer being a tiger though, GRRRRRRR!)