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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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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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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Kinfolk + Pals, Post'd (cards + letters)
Postal Dossier: to Poet Ron and Artist Jinn
Poet Ron Whitehead says, Huge Shout Out Thank You to my friend Dave Olson for the Amazing Gift Package from
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November re-cap: guest, poetry, pod & usual maintenance
The usual window, if that’s such a thing, to recap a month well…, I’m a bit late, now several days
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Halloween out n about / minimal effort, moderate fun (w/ magic darling duo)
Briefly: Evidence of us doing the Halloween rounds this afternoon / including the magnificent Taroman pumpkin shriveling into repose &
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Kinfolk + Pals, Portraits of the Artiste
Snap: tea & coffee / kimono & hat
Today in “Beauty and the Beast” I’m just thrilled to be her sidekick :-) riding the bus together, her in
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Outing: bus to passport snaps, jazz & tea
The three of us, on the road by wonderful, air conditioned, Wi-Fi enabled, Uno bus service into Okayama city for
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Equinox at Ohaka, saying respectful hellos to the ancestors
Friday, Sept 23: Equinox day walk up to the ancestral graves for cleaning, incense and fresh flowers… as is tradition.
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Ichiro in the summer (with cicadas & fish)
Snippets from the park a few weeks ago with my pal Ichiro. This is what Japan sounds like in the
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Diary: Ramblin’ Ted visits the shed (& farm)
My friend Ted came to visit – he lives in Kyoto but was doing some tour guide reconnaissance/spiels on Kyushu
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Letter: Palomar, schools, c0rona, Dirty Windshields, and baby Stanley
Sometime along the way (late 2019?), Grant Lawrence, BC broadcaster and writer (and Tin Tin fan), had some question for
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Item: Ryoko’s new kei truck (with dump back)
A few moths back (March 2022) Ryoko traded in her long-running trusty Suzuki kei-truck (kei-trucks/van/cars are a class of vehicles
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Ichiro Round-up: its all just so normal now… #io
So we go on so we go on, the little guy keeps growing… and while it used to be a
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Memo: why i do the archiving, scrapbooking etc
In reply to a tender correspondent: Thanks for the sweet note. Sometimes I wonder what I do all the archiving
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