Spent much of the day yesterday helping out with the Sacramento Nichiren Buddhist Church Mochi sale. Specifically, I helped moved the flats of rice from the steamer to the grinders. It was fascinating. Still researching the best ways to cook it. My favorite site so far is The Expat’s Guide to Japan.

Today was billed as a Buddha’s Parinirvana Day service but instead was a year-end Kaji Kito purification service and memorial. The service was followed with a church meeting that continued the discussion started in November about requests from the Nichiren Shu hierarchy in Japan. I will be assisting in drafting a response to send to Japan. In theory this needs to be accomplished before the end of January.