Mom’s Foreign Travel Treasures (Happy 75th Birthday)
Oh Mom, there are so many thing to tell you about this last year… the short is: for the first
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Kinfolk + Pals
Healing Ramble
Mementos: Pedicures, various
[note: updated 2024, mostly from 2015-2019] These days – what with the M.E.(cfs) and Fibro etc. – slowing me down,
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Kinfolk + Pals
Artifact: Resume of Lorne H. Olson (aka Dr. O)
When going through my late Mom’s archive of documents, ephemera, photos, letters etc, came across this beautifully executed resume for
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Mementos: Tottori Japan Life at Enokitake (mushroom) Farm etc.
Mementos: Japan Enokitake farm: view entering the farm compound in Saji, Tottoria Note: Above photo published in Japan Times article:
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Personal Musings
“Brushstrokes and Backpacks” – a brief autobiography
Note: this very freeform (and rather intentionally self-indulgent) flow was written as an assignment for a class at The Evergreen
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Kinfolk + Pals
“Always Be Kind” / Musings by Dr. Trevor Erikson
My ole pal Dr. Trevor “Trauben” Erikson shared a few musings about healing and kindness on his channel the other
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Notes to Future Self
Notes: What i Seek in Community / Places to Live
When the wheels fell off life due to illness, deaths, heartbreaks etc (circa 2015), i scribbled notes in a notebook
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Personal Musings
Flashback: Notes about Orem (Utah) high school, on occasion of 30th reunion (2018)
A high school i attended for 1-1/2 year-ish in Utah held a 20 anniversary for my graduating class in summer
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Personal Musings
Intentions and Musings for a Fresh Year, 2019
++ Art and Peace for a New Year ++ A humble offering of Musings and Intentions for a Fresh Year,
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Personal Musings
Year of the Wild Boar / Giggling Piglet
Year of the Giggling Piglet and/or Wild Boar… Either way, bodes well for yer ole pal “Bring on a brand
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Kinfolk + Pals
Happy Birthday Flashback for Dad, Lorne H. Olson, 2018
Happy Birthday Dad Lorne Harold Olson AKA Dr. O Dec. 1, 1941 (Winnipeg) ~ Feb. 11, 2014 (Surrey) As seen
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Notes to Future Self, Writing Life
Plotting paths of poets – past & forward
Plotting paths of poets past, noting inter-disciplinarianism is key to creating context to encapsulate your content (as it were). Write
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Notes to Future Self
Birthday wish (in 6 words & related dream)
Started as: In SIX WORDS or fewer, write a birthday wish. (Share your #sixwordstory here: ow.ly/A1wT30lqxMz) #6words #6wordstory #writingprompt #happybirthday
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Kinfolk + Pals
Buddy Mac’s Epic Grateful Dead etc Music Collection
My good buddy Mac Kobayashi runs a small farm in Okayama, Japan (really my fave all around place in the
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Mementos: Japan Hitch-hiking journey flashback
In 1993-4, I worked as a mushroom farmhand in Tottori-ken (prefecture), a rather remote area of Japan (southwestern-ish Honshu). The
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