If there's a theme for the next couple of episodes, it will be about the meandering journey of life, ending up in unexpected but wonderful places. Our guest went back on JET the second time, and with her husband and children, stayed on to build a life in Japan, start up a non-profit... and find a home living in the grounds of an ancient temple right in the heart of modern Kyoto.

Footnotes: 
- LEGACy, the NPO exchange program founded by Erin: https://www.facebook.com/LEGACy.NPO/
- LEGACy site: https://sites.google.com/noxon.us/legacynonprofit/
- Shinnyo-ji Temple's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kashikirimomiji/
- A description of the temple from a tourism site: http://slowtourism.jp/product/shinnyoji-temple/
- English site to rent accommodation at the temple: https://sites.google.com/view/shinnyoji-dormitory/
- Japanese site for the temple: https://shinnyo-ji.com/

Music adapted for this episode: "For Beautiful Human Life" by Acreil from the album Shapes With and Without Corners is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License, and is available on freemusicarchive.org

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