Reminder: no ganbaru needed
Note to self: you are not “frozen in amber” in 2013. The best is yet to come. Oh indeed! the […]
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Notes to Future Self
Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Musings: *Sports day* redundant & irrelevant annotations
Oct 13 Obligatory sports day dispatch Preamble: “Sports day” isn’t really a great translation but every year at schools from
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Diary: “just keep breathing” and beat the blahs… disintermediated blurbs + snaps
Nov. 1: Oh, I just remembered I have to change all the calendars / well my day is suddenly packed.
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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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Cameo: in International Journal of Beat Studies “Kerouac Fan”
Following all the shenanigans of the Kerouac in Kobe event in 2021 , including: … i joined up with the
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Healing Ramble, Notes to Future Self
Prompt: back to basics (laundry, dishes, tea, rice, meds and maybe postcards)
New week, new “prompt” and/or reminder or whatever. I’m not bouncing up but also not giving up. Always adjusting. BTW
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Kinfolk + Pals, Shoebox
O-furo with #io + #poem
I have very rudimentary arithmetic / math skills but I do know: Ichiro is 41-ish months old so about 1,230
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Diary: visit with Fujii (Great)Grandmother + coffee and cake
Went to visit Ryoko’s grandmother, obviously Ichiro’s great grandmother, 92 years young, living at an elders home. First time we
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Diary: Halloween 2023, quick hit for short event
It’s probably too late, late to the party whatevs… took the snaps on a “vintage” early gen digital camera so
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Healing Ramble, Notes to Future Self
Instructions: Go Slow, Very Slow
Current mode (not shocking) carry on “just be and don’t try so hard” (that’s doctors orders, I deal with an
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Personal Musings
Diary: momentary empty nest (with letters and sewing machine) #io
Ichiro away overnight to hot springs with grandparents – our 1st day/night alone, together. So, I wrote letters and compiled
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Improving Campsite
First woodstove fire of season (a single flick)
First wood stove fire of the season last night. That’s all glorious hardwood in there… I get very excited about
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Healing Ramble
Healing: Hospital visit – quick hits (with tie)
Diary timestamp dispatch of a hospital visit, 20.10.2023 at Okayama University Hospital. Yes, with a tie so look like a
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Ramen magic – spontaneous outing for resto’s anniversary
We picked up Ichiro from preschool and came to our favorite Ramen place. {Darling wife is working so hard &
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Notes to Future Self
“seemingly indifferent musings of mundanities of One’s Own Life…”
Reminder (if needed): “Somehow, the seemingly indifferent musings of mundanities of One’s Own Life are where the best, most honest
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Signs for a Surveyor in Moab
With “the illness”, recently having a hard time getting to the post office and just finishing up lingering projects but,
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