‘Weird Japan’ a multi-purpose reply
Think I will set this up as an auto reply “macro” (do people use that term?) to email folks when […]
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Aside: scrambling, not trying and laying flat (existential crisis off the bat)
Started the year (or whatever) in a series of fogs, trying not to scramble to “get going” again. Good news
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Ichiro: Catching up with 2-1/2 yr old boy
Ichiro, 2-1/2 so filled with curiosity and yes, he’s definitely exploring his limits, testing his boundaries, expressing himself for what
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Healing Ramble
Healing: hospital catch-up (new Kanpo etc)
Finding drafts and notes of diaries from hospital visits passed, in this case from a month ago (January 2023) with
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Tidying up: kura, recycling and firestarters (and a few notes from around the house)
Speaking of organizing, made it out to barn, studio the other day, couldn’t find project wanted to work on (a
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Kinfolk + Pals
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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Me: looking exhausted & ‘real’
There is a part in Wes Anderson’s spectacular film “Isle of Dogs” where the beleaguered canines are given a serum
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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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Personal Musings
Diary: excessively translucent figuring *it* out (how to do less)
Back on the bus, feeling like that beat up $20 bill you hide in your shoe when on a renegade
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Stitch, Stitch: mending some demin jeans, sashiko-esque
Stitch, stitch, stitch (mending some Uniqlo jeans Dane loan/gave me when I showed up from India in rags for my
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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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Personal Musings
Ukulele Funtimes – “Atlantic City” at Kojo Piano Club
“Atlantic City” on baritone uke performed at “Kojo piano club” / sort of accidentally my debut of playing and singing
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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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Diary: specs, tea, cards & usual annotations from the fog
Everything old was new again / same as it ever was, same as it never was. Various annotations Nov. 25~27ish
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