Hi friends, konichua. Oh, ho-y-bye, con-bun-bye-ganky-deska.

Yoko so, welcome to the Wabi-Sabi podcast. This is episode number 178. There is lovely Brooklyn

construction outside of my window today, but I'm very grateful the sun came out and it's a little bit warmer than it normally is.

So thank God. We had one of the most brutal winters in the last decade, roughly, give or take

in New York this year. So if you've got a New Yorker friend or you're a New Yorker, give them a little

bit of extra love this year and give yourself a little extra

love because you have made it. If you believe in nature, as my sister tells me, then what goes up

must come down and what goes down must come up. So the temperature did come back again. And I'm so

grateful for that. Today, we're going to have a rough conversation

about Japanese wellness practices and the wisdom that we've learned through the documentary

Kinsugi on YouTube and NHK World. If you haven't checked it out yet, please go to YouTube.com

slash Candace Kumai to watch episodes one, two,

and three. Episode four will come out this Friday. So I'm blown away by your comments. They

should be written on all three episodes so I can get accurate feedback. Thank you to everybody

who wrote a comment and also who wrote a review for this pod.

I have noticed you guys write hilarious comments sometimes.

And also, I was surprised that there were so many positive comments on YouTube

considering that friends at Google have reported that YouTube can be a really

scary place for women sometimes. It's predominantly male-driven, and the comments can be really

brutal. So it was nice to see that when sharing my grandfather's art, we're sharing my mother's

story, or sharing my family heritage that I didn't get

too many Haderville comments. If you in life are ever afraid of the negativity or the fear that

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