Weed View | Application for Kyoto Stay
A reflective summary triggered by applying for a short stay at a temple in Kyoto.
I live in Dali, Yunnan. Last spring I visited northern Japan and loved it. I saw your invitation for a temple stay and was thrilled—it's exactly the kind of experience I want. I struggled to reply because summarizing myself is hard. A friend described my life as "floating outside reality, belonging neither here nor there." That's accurate.
For six years I've worked with mushrooms and wild greens in Dali, leading foraging trips in summer. The rest of the year is free. Two weeks ago I drove to Yangshuo with my dog, renting a small room for a month. I spend mornings learning English, afternoons exploring villages and cooking outdoors. I need this unfamiliar environment to focus on small things.
Your mention of Ogawa Tofu shop reminded me of the drama "Living in Kyoto." I only watched a few episodes—I want to discover things myself. I loved your line about grandparents turning passions into art, and Kyoto's oldness supporting delicate awareness. That's what I'd explore if selected.
I think I'll always be searching and exploring, because I've decided I don't need conventional success. I want to try whatever feels good, without limits. Right now I'm learning English for future exploration.
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Jason | Using AI to Create Your Own Mini Program/Website
Two months ago in Chiang Mai, I stumbled upon the chance to start learning how to build mini programs. My AI programming mentor, Wangshen, told me, 'Once you finish your mini program, write a summary report.' Now I've completed the new mini program for Cangshan Hiking Home, and it's already being tested. It not only solves problems I've wanted to address for a while, like adding age tags to filter activities and providing an English version, but it has also introduced new features, such as browsing restaurants, guesthouses, and meeting points on a map for a more intuitive experience, and using AI to provide quite intelligent responses.
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Celebrate the Torch Festival in a Nanzhao Royal Clan Village
Over the past two years, we have taken guests to celebrate the Torch Festival in Songhe Village, Eryuan. Together we slaughtered a sheep, and with the whole village, erected a huge torch in the center of the village square. Everyone made their own torches from hemp stalks, and together with the older and younger villagers, we rushed to grab the blessing baba (cakes) from the big torch, passing blessings to each other with fire. Even for me, a native Bai person, these are rare and precious traditional festival experiences. Dali has endless festivals, and I want to experience them more before they fade away. I remember the Torch Festival of my childhood: torches were no longer enough for me. Before the festival, I would tell my dad to prepare a bucket of waste engine oil and diesel, mix them together, and then I would tightly bind cotton and old cloth with rope into a ball (some kids would secretly take cotton from their quilts at home to make it). Finally, I would make an iron wire ball, soak it in the bucket of oil, and secretly take it out every day to look at it, looking forward to having a great time on the day of the Torch Festival. We would compete in the village and by the rice fields to see whose fireball or torch was more impressive. When the torches and fireballs were almost burned out, we would rush home, walk around the potted fruit trees in circles, and say blessing words, hoping they would grow even better in the coming year.