Artifact: Radio (in an Okayama bar window)
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Currency Banknotes
Collection: Currency (expired, variety), vol. 5 (includes Bulgaria!)
What follow is Volume Five of several in an on-going series – this one featuring currencies no longer in circulation
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Personal Musings
Annotations re: Star Wars IX and personal historical notes
A few remarks regarding Star Wars IX “The Rise of Skywalker“ #NoSpoilers Empathy is the greatest power or attribute worth
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Notes to Future Self
Artifact: Log Bench (detail) / lesson in elegant simplicity
Metaphor: look for simple elegant ways to make/do tasks/things which can become unnecessarily complicated
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifacts: 2 Cameras, 4 Phones, 2 VWs, 2 Maneki Neko (in a coffee shop in Nozawa Onsen)
Wandering into a coffee shop in Nozawa Onsen, Nagano to find all sorts of treasures.
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: cards/letters received (Nov – Dec 2019) from Scotland, Vancouver, Japan…
Cards and Letters are rolling on in to the Tsuchida Cottage postbox. Each a treasure and documented for posterity as
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Personal Musings
Diary: Kaki / Permissions, various notes and projects
Kaki (persimmon) perhaps the most under-appreciated fruit (to me at least). So interesting! Looks vaguely like a tomato with colour
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Music / Rock, Personal Musings
Annotations re: The Clash’s London Calling turning 40
A few sundry/spontaneous remarks about London Calling, The Clash’s remarkable album, turning 40 as well as a few miscellaneous annotations
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Post'd (cards + letters)
“Posted: Letters from Elsewhere” – book now available
“Posted: Letters To Elsewhere “by Dave Olson Available for Purchase I made a fun book of postboxes, letter slots, post
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Shoebox
Backyard, seasons, life #haiku
In the backyard of a new lifeDrinking a weak warm cupWatching leaves change near Winter
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Video Dim Sum
Mae Maes – Ryoko’s band at Mukunomi Fureai Matsuri
[videopress pk72nzXf] Konnichi-Mae! To complete the trifecta of tunes from Saturday’s Matsuri comes my favourite! Ryoko’s band Mae Maes played
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Autumn Miscellany, scenes of “regular life” in Okayama
A few years ago (or less), each day was quite tough. Now, each day i deal with pain and confusion
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: New Year’s cards 2020, wave 1
Batch one of New Year’s postcards sent to seven countries. 95 items in this wave, many more to come… I
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