Healing: hospital catch-up (new Kanpo etc)
Finding drafts and notes of diaries from hospital visits passed, in this case from a month ago (January 2023) with […]
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Healing Ramble
Tidying up: kura, recycling and firestarters (and a few notes from around the house)
Speaking of organizing, made it out to barn, studio the other day, couldn’t find project wanted to work on (a
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Japan Life/Travel, Post'd (cards + letters)
Item by Poste: photo zines from Art Island Naoshima
Photo book and photo zine by Andrew McCormick (@a.d.mccormick IG, @a_d_mccormick Tw) curator/wrangler of Art Island Center (@artislandcenter IG) on nearby Naoshima – one
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ryoko & Me at Goat Farm
Photo at Rural Caprine (Goat) Farm where we met, captured by our first “official tourist visa guest” Kane Tan –
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Me: looking exhausted & ‘real’
There is a part in Wes Anderson’s spectacular film “Isle of Dogs” where the beleaguered canines are given a serum
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Vinyl: cultural curated bonanza pack & bard poets
An incredible act of kindness showed up at our door – dense and heavy, and maybe a little bit weary
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Haircut day at “Lost in Showa” shop & with Ichiro’s first time in the chair
Haircuts day at a “lost in showa” barber / first time for Ichi-Stan in the chair (usually mom snips him
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Personal Musings
Diary: excessively translucent figuring *it* out (how to do less)
Back on the bus, feeling like that beat up $20 bill you hide in your shoe when on a renegade
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Stitch, Stitch: mending some demin jeans, sashiko-esque
Stitch, stitch, stitch (mending some Uniqlo jeans Dane loan/gave me when I showed up from India in rags for my
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Japan Renegade Travel Musings (specifically *not* Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka)
Adventure Tour Guide Ted Taylor and DaveO riff in a historic Kura barn in Tsuchida, Okayama, Japan talking about exploring…
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Diary: New Year Shrine Visit, 2023
When we went to Munetada shrine during New Year festivities 2023, I purchased three prayer tiles as I have a
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Post’d: new year mail-outs / postal odds and ends (& what happens next)
“Good news” is over 300 pieces of postal mail dispatched the last 4-5 weeks. Mostly postcards but also bunch of
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Post'd (cards + letters)
New Year Cards – postal drop & related evidence
New Year day in Japan is better than Christmas for postal mail enthusiasts when a big stack of cards arrives
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Tiger Year 2022: Flashback Musings in Present Moment
A meandering rundown from the kura barn about New Year routines, foods and rituals in Japan, plus usual gabba gabba
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