Fall Ikebana Class: What's Next?
October is the fallen leaf, but also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring...
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- Feb 14
Ikebana Class: Every Season's Bounty
Don't overthink it. -- Mark, my housepainter Even though Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this year, predicting six more weeks of winter,...
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- Mar 21, 2021
Ikebana Vases and Display Stands
Check out these newly listed vases and our array of display stands at the IkebanaDreaming collection on Etsy. This Ohara-style vase is a...
geriservi
- Feb 18, 2021
Chaos to Stillness: an Ikebana Exercise
Fail, fail again, fail better. -- Samuel Beckett Pardon the interlude these past couple months. With COVID's relentless march across the...
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- Dec 6, 2020
Ikebana Holiday Arrangements
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. -- Joni Mitchell The Holiday Season is here…. Somehow, the exclamation point seems...
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- Nov 18, 2020
Give the Gift of Ikebana
The holidays are fast approaching. Although they’re sure to be different this year, showing love to family and friends is more important...
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- Oct 28, 2020
No Kenzan -- Tools and Techniques
...discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust On my morning walk, the air is...
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- Sep 13, 2020
Ikebana without Kenzan: Surprising Things Happen
I live in Bend, Oregon, perhaps one of the most beautiful places on the planet. It sits at the base of towering Mt. Bachelor and the...
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- Sep 7, 2020
Featured Plant - Alstroemeria
Alstroemeria is that humble bloom that can save the day in ikebana. It’s so easy, you feel like a pro, so abundant and affordable, it’s...
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- Aug 21, 2020
Hiding the Kenzan
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. -- Shunryu Suzuki I was a little awestruck...
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- Jul 16, 2020
Avoid Drowning, Dive into Ikebana
I’m a swimmer and a fan of the writer Bonnie Tsui. She loves swimming and writes about it often and eloquently. In a recent article, she...
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- Jul 3, 2020
Featured Plant: Tulip
Perhaps the tulip is the only earthly bloom that boasts a Golden Age. Yes, Tulipmania was really a thing. There was a time in the 17th...
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- Jun 20, 2020
How Things Are Now
The poet must not avert his eyes. - Werner Herzog In an ikebana class, we students were once asked to pick an emotion -- anger, sadness,...
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- Jun 14, 2020
Featured Vase - Karukaya Hashirakake Some Dai
Say what? Following is a simple translation: KARUKAYA – a reed (Themeda triandra var. japonica, a variety of kangaroo grass) HASHIRAKAKE...
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- Jun 7, 2020
Moribana - a Primer
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. -- William Butler Yeats And so it...
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- May 24, 2020
Featured Plant: Daffodils
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils.... Alain de Botton It's that time. Can we all agree?...
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- May 14, 2020
Nageire
Let's continue the deconstruction of an arrangement from an earlier post that illustrates nageire, a style of arrangement featuring a...
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- May 2, 2020
Featured Plant - Forsythia
Forsythia is uniquely suited to ikebana. Its long, meandering branches create an elegant line for shin or soe (main stems). The blazing...
geriservi
- Apr 25, 2020
Why We're Here...
I've been away awhile, and by that I mean from ikebana. It's been winter and in Central Oregon the flowers and flora burrow deep and...
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- Nov 2, 2019
Autumn Ikebana at the Portland Japanese Garden
Sogetsu Portland hosted The Radiance of Autumn, an ikebana exhibit at the Portland Japanese Garden on October 26-27. The show was a...
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