A New Year.

A Happy New Year!
I wish we all will be filled with a lot of joy,laughs, and love in 2012.

I've got some new year's greeting cards from my friends on New Year's Day.
It's a Japanese custom to send greeting cards on New Year's Day to friends,business acquaintances and customers to wish them a happy. This custom is similar to the Weastern practice of sending Christmas cards.

It's supposed to drop those cards by the end of December but I had no time to do.
I wrote the cards on New Year's Day.

When I saw the cards I've got,those looked same to me because those are printed (typed) even addressing side. It is not interesting. The greeting cards were handwritten long time ago but many people choose to type it these days.

I decided to wrtie the cards by Japanese calligraphy brush,handwriting like old people did. It's been long since I used the brush last time.
It wasn't easy to handle the brush.You need to concentrate your attention on the brush and card.I thought that was like Zen.

My handwritung was not good at all but I felt pretty good.
You know,taking some concentrated time then thnking about friends,then write the cards cafefully.
I guess it is not bad to have this event at least once a year to stay away from busy life just for awhile.