Signpost: each comes with a story / Noto + Providence & Pokhara
Each place on Tsuchida Station Sign Post has a story behind it for me or for my Ryoko, or for […]
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Improving Campsite
DIY: small repairs, global satchel + hemp curtain
I fixed my leather satchel which I bought in Nepal, broke in Greece, stapled in Thailand, and now sewed back
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Kinfolk + Pals, Personal Musings
Note: Ryoko’s new dump truck (& thwarting patriarchy)
Ryoko signed papers to buy 2021 Daihatsu Hi-jet, low dump kei-truck. Auto trans, 4wd, 660cc, Alas the dumps only come
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Post’d: first batch in a while…
Kind of weird but this is my first batch of letters and postcards to go out this year… (aside from
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ryoko climbing Ginkgo tree
My wife at work – trimming Ginkgo biloba tree at a shrine – Edo-period age, cutting away from power lines (didn’t
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“The Present is…” notes and projects around Kura (post box, poems, flower pots)
The present is an unfinished poem ________. Let’s Enjoy! Note: my kura is the official Cascadia Consulate for the Setouchi
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February, farewell (mostly rebuilding)
Like January, February saw a lot of time spent at hospitals and doctors but added in a funeral, taxes in
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Items: record shop stop (feat. BTO Japan Tour)
yesterday, report / diary: Finished medical appt and somehow a magnetic impulse pulled me into a tiny record store –
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Tsuchida Station: Sign Post project (fun with cartography)
Blurb: Now that the major parts of our renovation(s) are done and we settled in, turning our attention to “improving
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Improving the Campsite (odds and ends diary)
A little bit lost – &/or found – of late, but the dishes are finished, laundry started and the rabbits
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Japan Life/Travel
Event: Kominka Summit, April 2022, Kyoto
To: Friends in (mostly rural areas of) Japan Re: Minka Summit 2022 (not just for Kominka) in Kyoto-fu Memo: Folks
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Diary: notes from the slow lane (curling, quiche, errands, taxes & flowers for Mom)
This disinter-mediated and somewhat timeshifting rundown of miscellaneous annotations and notes from the last week may not make sense entirely
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Diary: Leaving India ~ rapidly, in a fog (Nov. 2016)
Note: transcribed with light editing from my scribbled journal made in “real time” – as always more to say but
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Items: arrived by post (regarding poets and ramblers)
Three items arrived by post: a card and dossier of treats from a rambler in Salish Sea (w/ lovely inky
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Collections of Artifacts
Item: National Geo with India trains and Japan map + many treats
National Geographic magazine, June, 1984 – ordered from Hokkaido Market ¥500 incl postage. Cover story about India railways (*rather* condescending
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Diary: Really nothing *big* however, life carries on
Feb 10 Great magazine arrived, National Geographic, June 1984 with cover story about trains in India + history of Japan
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