New Year Nengajyo 年賀状, 2025 – the Time Travelers return
Ahoy the year of the Snake! We send fond greetings and best wishes for a splendid year ahead from the […]
New Year Nengajyo 年賀状, 2025 – the Time Travelers return Read Post »
Ahoy the year of the Snake! We send fond greetings and best wishes for a splendid year ahead from the […]
New Year Nengajyo 年賀状, 2025 – the Time Travelers return Read Post »
I am so proud of you for rolling through another topsy turvy year, nothing but good times ahoy I’ve got
Evolve, Make Something Big (or maybe nothing at all), k bai Read Post »
My gentle correspondent @PaprikaGirl_JP suggested a (Hungarian, I think) tradition of writing 100 things – of all sorts, levels of
2024, 100 “things” from the year, in a book (for me) Read Post »
When busted my foot missing a stairs landing in August, I’d shifted weight from left foot (which broke) to right
Mending memories and Patching jackets Read Post »
Background: Many of the activities for my brothers and i were centered around Cub Scouts mostly as well as the
Artifacts (youngtime): Cub and Beaver Scouting – with Mom and Brothers Read Post »
Back from Toronto errr… Scarborough: Summer of ’87 I went from Orem (and surrounding areas), Utah to spend a couple
“Long Hair Club” and other Utah Valley Tech/Community College incidents Read Post »
Amongst our childhood activities growing up – for the most part – in the municipality of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Youngtime: Flintstone Village ++ Stone Age Family ++ Read Post »
A friendly cheese ball pose from the bus stop as a time marker for heading to the hospital {totally spaced
Hospital Day – i should be better at this now but trying Read Post »
Field Notes: Anyway, this preamble suggests this article will share something useful about the region however it does not :)
Since then, I’ve learned much more but really the best resources are below in the form of Setouchi Explorer blog and Island Art Center’s dispatches. But hey, some fun snaps of ferries, outdoor installations and other cafe and villages vibes here.
Consider this a placeholder for further documentation {if you have something “non-generic tourist pablum to share, let me know}
My experience, despite living so close, is very limited and in this case the following snapshots are from a simple day trip to Naoshima in which I visited zero museums
You see, in June 2019, my arborist wife was working nearby Uno port, a jumping off point to the islands, so I bussed over (along, the way documented my reading, coffees and flashbacks per usual
Field Notes: Naoshima art island & Uno Port, Setouchi 2019 Read Post »
using pinking shears, construction paper, paint, markers, twine and music, i make a big banner sign for my kiddo’s birthday
Making Ichiro’s Birthday banner sign in the kura Read Post »
Found in the archive: a letter written, apparently to a friend from teenage days, travelling on Pacific Blue Drum Corps
Up to Here: “a life catch-up” letter to a teenage pal Read Post »
Pardon brevity: busy times there! (years past much more mellow) but we visited our friends The Hosokawas [kiln firing, studio
Diary: quick hits from Bizen Ceramic Fest Read Post »
In the middle of a night leading up to our wedding preparations #DRO420, we visited notable Potter (and Ryoko’s friend) Hosokawa Takahiro
Hosokawa-san’s Bizen-yaki pottery / sake cups for #DRO420 Read Post »
Preamble: I am hereI’m tryingI’m flusteredI changed my outfit twice (possibly more)because autumn remains elusiveSeveral checkpoints and transfers aheadYes, flustered
Diary: hospitals, lunch, postcards, bus… just the same + ramen & moon Read Post »
Amongst our outings, me and my darlings Ryoko & Ichiro, found ourselves at Bird Live House [map] here in Okayama
Outing: Live House Bird Christmas jam, Dec. 2022 Read Post »
observations, in a reverse order if you are noting chronologies: Yesterday, a spark of independenceSimple as it was, as it
Vignettes: busses, hospitals, sandos, baths and walls Read Post »