by Nan Rae | Apr 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
The most beautiful day was also the most inspiring, being at the Music Center’s ’44 Annual Very Special Arts Festival!’ And the most fun! Seeing the children with such special needs being applauded and celebrated and having so many delightful events...
by Nan Rae | Apr 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
It began with an inspiring Salon on the Spiritually Creative Life hosted by Wondrous Carol Soucek King, with this month’s guest speaker being Brilliant Satinder Dhiman, Ph.D., EdD, Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program and Professor of...
by Nan Rae | Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Special thanks to Sensei Michael Belzer, President of the ‘Friends of Shoseian,’ a non-profit founded to maintain and preserve the beauty and serenity of the Shoseian Teahouse and the Japanese Friendship Garden, for again asking me to participate in the...
by Nan Rae | Mar 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
There’s always the promise of a better day, and a rainbow is meant to tell us that! You’ll see one further down, but for now, I will share delights along the way. Awesome Sherry Dewane shepherds the ‘Play Review’ group and gets the most amazing...
by Nan Rae | Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
It pours! Coming from Chicago, I know weather, and what happens out here in sunny California is rarely that….until now. My gosh, you’d think I’d melt, but there’s no going out in downpours! Sadly I canceled quite a few things but found out that...
by Nan Rae | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the highlights of our group trip to Japan was the privilege of being in a private residence, partaking of a tea ceremony, dressed in antique kimonos. Our gracious hostess held up a Kanji and told us…’This is a moment in time that will never come...