A common fixture in many Japanese stores is the sculpture of the Maneki Neko, or literally “beckoning cat.”
The story (or at least one version of it) is that the cat belonged to an old impoverished man, and one day the cat crossed the path of a nobleman on a journey diverting him with it’s beckoning. [...]
I found this coin quite a while ago in a Salem bead shop, it has peaches and bats on one side and the symbol for fu on the other (along with three symbols that I don’t know.)
The coin itself is made from cheap mixed metal and has a nice fake patina. The bats are also [...]
A friend once told me that luck was an invisible substance that he chose to apply to himself as an alternative to proper preparation.
I seem to have much the same attitude when it comes to websites. Oh sure, I could have made a back up, but I chose to chance it. On one hand I [...]
