Post’d: postcards with *purpose* & mostly motels
A batch of postcards went out into the world… I guess sometime ago now but their journey as long and […]
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Okayama’s “moment” + a few checkpoints and sustainable enjoyable life
Unfamous Okayama is having a bit of a moment: lots of new houses going up, Iris Oyama making a factory
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Improving Campsite
Campsite: Fujita Koen maintenance
Evidence I tried to help with a piece of land the family owns that is squished between the shrine mountain
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Visit from the wild boar trapper, annotations
Slightly dis-intermediated updates about the “wild boar guy” visit Aug 2: The wild boar trapping specialist is coming tomorrow at
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Post’d: inbound treats from India, Lanka, Ukraine, Ireland, City Lights, Bowen, Germany etc
I mean, I know no one is really worrying about this or hardly paying attention, but I have a strange
“Illegal Smile” at Nishiwaki Beach (w/ baritone ukulele)
Strumming along to classic John Prine tune “Illegal Smile” – a song, in this case, about the desire for a peaceful,
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Diary: i need quiet (grousing for no reason but so tired) #vent
I’m quite desperate for some long period of extreme quiet. Yesterday, an outing to our fave beach, “quite empty for
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Notes to Future Self
Nostalgia is a…
“nostalgia is a hobby for those not busy making the future” dvo PS i am nostalgic as fck 279 draft
Old Man Punk
Fresh out of defiance #draft
Fresh out of defiant slogansToo exhausted to scowlDone with rhetoric and angstGiven up on raised firstsJust my eyebrows for nowI
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Shoebox
28 years ago in Okazaki… JE to DO
“Your brother picked me up at Nagoya Station 28 years ago tonight, & hustled me out to his place in
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Post’d: long road to India and Metchosin wormhole
Dropped a letter in the mail on the way home from our unexpected seaside journey. First one going out with
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“Carey (you’re a mean old daddy)” on Baritone Ukulele at Nishiwaki Beach
With a straw hat and giggles at a windy beach, I plough through fellow Saskatoon-born Joni Mitchell’s “Carey” while thinking
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Diary: shaking it out, tidying up bamboo and looking ahead to YMCA school
Meanwhile, back at the cottage after returning home from Seaside for a bonanza of vacuuming, shake out, linen changes and
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Collections of Artifacts, Phones (pay + desk), Postboxes
Snaps: additions to usual collections (phone, postbox, ship, stamps and coffee)
Compiling usual additions to standard collections, ergo: * rotary phone (black, functional) at Tereya Cafe * postbox (6th floor of
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Diary: unexpected Ushimado hotel outing
Oh my goodness, what a topsy-turvy start to day… really going on for a few days since Typhoon(s)… While we
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Diary: expedition with Mac to ohaka
waiting for friend to pick me up to go visit his dear late wife’s grave on the side of a
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