Madre de mi alma es una canción folclórica turcomana dedicada a la madre y a su amor filial.

A few weeks ago, I took a walk that ended up being longer than usual. It wasn't planned, just happened. Something was just weighing on me that day. I’d cleared my desk, and nothing else was calling for

The twenty-first syllable in the iroha hiragana sequence is na (な), represented in both of my two iroha karuta sets by the same proverb: 泣き面に蜂 Naki tsura ni hachi or, in fuller form: 泣き面に蜂が刺す Naki tsura

There is a contrast I find fascinating—something structured and something soft. Like marble and skin. Precision and warmth. Control and feeling. True elegance often exists in that balance. Too much of