sunny day walk to the post office
{leaving the house usually means hospitals or preschool activities and sometimes post offices like in this case} made some poem […]
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Libraries for Sensitive Neanderthals ~ Stellate Ganglion Blocks and History of Nothing
How to remain porous and ready for inspiration as an artist while not growing cynical and hardened in a topsy-turvy world? Sure go to libraries, be a good dad to a curious kid who is learning about Neanderthals… and talk about these things on a dodgy mic beside a crackly fire with a few chords on a ukulele
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Japan Cottage Musings
Peace to Hockey Storyteller & Dada-ist Beat Poet (RIP Jim Robson and Alex Caldiero)
Fond memories and kind regards to two deceased storymakers: Vancouver Canucks broadcaster and legendary gent Jim Robson, gone at 91
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finding *ways* to spark (in precedented times)
out of tune with world, yet sending sparks, backyard fire storytime: Appropriately out of tune both with the world and
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Analog Craft Time: New Year Card remix *friendship is golden*
Tidying up new year cards as we switch & shift into February and fresh up projects (good things coming)… So
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so, you’re coming to Japan? oh good! dig tactics
yes, yet another overview of traveling around Japan, possibly with links to other narratives and videos about traveling around Japan. Usual variety of tips, anecdotes, tactics and my love of minor provincial cities, goat farms, coffee, tea and jazz… Plus post offices well, you know all this by now
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“Advocate” poetry & Lomo folio to *charming* printer in Bizen
A new poetry folio chapbook called “advocate, vanish now and again” featuring short stanza poetry and Lomo photographs, all exposed during a tumultuous time of disappearing, collapse and re-creation (amongst the destruction of a currency and my life as I knew it) but hey, went to a cute print shop, maybe I’ll do some letter press there as well
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Arbitrary postal and life task check in
January 22: Arbitrary check-in from Qinono RSK resto next to prefectural museum of art 42 cards, packets, and letters sent
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sortganizing foreign cards, festive & such – into an accordion folio
a stack of cards, gratefully received from overseas, now organized into an accordion folder, with stories and anecdotes, alongside
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hats, boots, postcards and Jaco
met this awesome dude, a bass player from Hiroshima, at a gig here in Okayama some months back (april 25,
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thinking about not thinking, yet so much *life*
a tremendous amount already, this morning, in bed at 11:30 AM, January 10, feels like three months already or three days: journals of dreams and schemes, festive cards sent and received, visits to two shrines and one Grey, earthquake while writing prayer tiles, three medical appointments already, helping several groups of guest planning visits, cowboy suits and Lego builds, garden plans, antique restorations and so much more, I want to share many artifacts jotted it down here and there, yet for now or for later… a poem
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New Year Card 2026 ~ storytime & DIY kit #video
this inadequate description simply says: I talk about new year cards – all the way from Japanese tradition and various
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Holiday wrap up (hands loosely on the reins, comfortably in the stirrups)
I guess the holidays are officially done? It’s Sunday, January 4 at five something p.m. We’re just back from tea
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Olson’s New Year Nengajyo 年賀状 – 2026 ~ Reiwa 8
2026 – Reiwa 8 Olson family New Year card dossier ~ complete with handy versions including printable PDF with crop marks, alternate photo options, complete design notes, backgrounder – about the mailing process this year, and even the individual elements to remix your own
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Sleepy Happy New Year eve 「あけおめ」^_^ ~ Dec. 31, 8:30pm
a brief pre-bath & bedtime note of new year greeting in advance of the “official” new year card… to say that we’re thinking about you and wishing you the best for the year ahead wherever and whoever you are
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100 *things* – incidents and otherwise – for 2025
a spontaneous spoken word round-up digressions and anecdotes focused around approximately “100 incidents, happenings, events or musings” for 2025 recorded in the caboose with a sharp REM T-shirt and a magnificent beard reading from my bamboo paper diary
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