Ichiro Cards: featuring: Recharging (from fever), Tatami (inspecting) and just looking cool in tank-top)
3.5 pack of Ichiro Cards Memo: little dude had a fever, up to 39.5°, recently but monitored with Dr. visits
Personal Musings, Post'd (cards + letters)
Diary: postal, piano, fever etc
Mailed: 23 postcards {mostly #DaveO50 #PersonalArchaeology series} Two thick dossiers (one foreign, one domestic) Bonanza of Paralympic sports stamps Plus,
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Diary: to the seashore for pizza & watermelons
Brief evidence of a day trip to Nishiwaki Beach {Setouchi city} and pizza at Iwaburo + meeting up with Ryoko’s jazz
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Aside: Japan’s change in next 20 years
Japan’s change in next 20 years Somehow I feel like we’re going into a massively interesting time of transition in
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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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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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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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Memo: Peaches, slow life, and thank-you etc
As John Prine advised, “move to the country, grow a lot of peaches…“ so we are (though these peaches pictured
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