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 […]
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Artifacts (youngtime): Cub and Beaver Scouting – with Mom and Brothers
Background: Many of the activities for my brothers and i were centered around Cub Scouts mostly as well as the
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Youngtime: Flintstone Village ++ Stone Age Family ++
Amongst our childhood activities growing up – for the most part – in the municipality of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Craft Sessions, Kinfolk + Pals
Making Ichiro’s Birthday banner sign in the kura
using pinking shears, construction paper, paint, markers, twine and music, i make a big banner sign for my kiddo’s birthday
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Diary: quick hits from Bizen Ceramic Fest
Pardon brevity: busy times there! (years past much more mellow) but we visited our friends The Hosokawas [kiln firing, studio
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Outing: Live House Bird Christmas jam, Dec. 2022
Amongst our outings, me and my darlings Ryoko & Ichiro, found ourselves at Bird Live House [map] here in Okayama
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the “Piano Bar” visiting friend Ren-san & thinking about cozy music spaces
Popped in to visit our buddy, the master of “the piano bar” on a fairly anonymous third floor here in
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Kinfolk + Pals, Spoken + Song, Ukulele Goodtimes
Ichiro’s theme (on baritone ukulele)
{at further risk of embarrassing myself ;)} A song for my awesome kid – about who he is, where he
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3 collages of Ichiro at Korakuen (matching poses and crossing bridges)
Three collages with Ichiro us making the same face poses from time to time others of him crossing various bridges…
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Kinfolk + Pals
Happy 40th to Ryoko, Queen of Tsuchida & our hearts
Happy birthday to my darling Ryoko Not only did you change my life for the better, but you impact so
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Catching up & goofing around with Ichiro #io
For the record, I am completely mental in love about this incorrigible, amusing, intrepid, courageous kiddo #io I’m always dropping
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Diary: New Year Dragons with foods, gardens, bevvies, and themes #calm
what follows is a post-dated diary of various activities in and around New Years day copied from various notebooks, memos,
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Festive Omnibus Annotations (church, shrine, tea, gardens, fire, poems, snaps)
So many things to tell you but I’ll scribble in Postcards, 1 by 1 because each of you deserves custom-made
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*Method Acting* Santa Claus at “Forest Pre-school”
Those years studying Stanislavski’s acting system coming through in my naturalistic/method acting portrayal of a certain festive character to the
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Diary: simple tasks and sparking life with renegade Ted
Evidence I’m still alive… From Oct. 25-ish or so (lemme check that as though it matters :0) Not gonna lie,
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Secret Sketches (don’t tell *anyone*)
A penpal somewhere in Japan (can i tell your name?) produces lovely sketches – often of foks riding subways, gazing on
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