Music theory, thunder & friendships #diary
From a rainy porch, riffing gratefulness for friends with kind words and packages, minimal commentary about ridiculous Olympics and various […]
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Healing: Dr. Veena’s Ayurmantra, review
Continuing the story of my stay at Dr. Veena’s Ayurmantra iin Trippunithura, (near Kochi), Kerala, India. Part 1 is a
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Video Dim Sum
Rainy Days and Mae Maes #video
Rainy Days in Japan brings a cute new video from my wife’s band Mae Maes for song called “Ame” (rain).
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Kitchen: Ume vinegar, syrup & cordial (bottling etc)
[continuing from: Kitchen: Umeboshi Time with Crock & Rocks (+ pickles & jam) & Kitchen: Umeboshi update (drying after salting, before
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Diary: stop by the goat farm (Grateful Dead, ephemera, records, sandwiches)
Dear wife slowed down from her tree trimming teaching, job site visits, landscape planning, tea ceremony, band practice etc. etc.
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Memo: strange dreams (despite all the goodness)
strange dreams (despite all the goodness) So many weird dreams last night. Did nice “loving kindness“ meditation before sleep and
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Memo: Personal Archeology > for years and decades
Think of *every* surface as your own personal notebook and remind often you’re doing *this for yourself* and for the
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Kerala Field Notes: painting, rupees, museum, specs, wedding etc
The doors open, you don’t know where you might go, so you go An omnibus round-up for lousy photos of
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Kitchen: Kaki (persimmon) vinegar (filtering & bottling)
Kaki Vinegar, Bottled-up (catching up from April 21, 2021) Kaki (persimmons) are all around us here in Okayama so we
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Japan Cottage Musings
Effectuating positive change from heart (with ukulele)
Just back from cleaning the grandparents’ graves and regrouping in century+ old barn studio, i riff a few things in
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Memo: Pearls Before Swine
Pearls before Swine (ps i love pigs) Consider being careful about putting your precious ‘pearls before swine’, meaning that some
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Prayer for the Lost Ones
My heart aches for each of them, the undiscovered ones, the forgotten ones, the families, the grandmas, the grandchildren that
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Summer plans: Baritone Ukulele and writing hiragana / katakana
On my stated list of objectives for this year, I plan to: 1) Learn to play a song or 3
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Memo: “document in the way which feels natural to you”
Re: Personal Archeology Document in the way which feels natural to you. Doesn’t have to be a “blog”, can be
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Letter: regarding eco-carpetbaggers, money-focused orgs, talk – action = zero, etc
Written as a letter to a friend, somehow thought good idea to put here so i don’t lose it. Not
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Writing Life
word: anemoia
anemoia – n. nostalgia for a time you’ve never known {from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows} Imagine stepping through the