Our friend Jenny sends us a postcard from Taipei. It’s for the Lunar New Year. The very picture of wintertime bliss: a tiger bathing in hot spring, complete with a face towel on top of his head. He looks grumpy, but it’s probably the way felines adjust to the heat of the onsen.
It’s a cute postcard; it’s the Year of the Water Tiger. But it does make me miss the onsens in Japan, in Hokkaido and Tohoku; and it makes me miss Taipei where the postcard was sent from, and our friend Jenny whom we’ve not seen in years.
May this year improve by leaps and bounds for everyone, and may we hear the onsen roar again.