Riff: about Tsuchida Cottage construction + vids
A few notes originally written to a friend as a letter in Feb 2021 riffing about the “Tsuchida Cottage” (soon […]
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Personal Musings
Post’d: Coffee break with fountain pen, Hey Rosetta & Mr Bragg
Construction outside, coffee service delivered for the workers, now giving my ears and brain a bit of a break by
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Diary: Café Poetry, Street cars, Seitai and Curry
As it goes: “Over the Wall” > Headed by bus for some medical treatment (seitai) trying to stay ahead of
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Time Travelers ~ art card project dossier & variations
+ Steady on Time Travelers, variations + While doing a photo shoot for Ichiro’s 100 days at Homare Photo Atelier
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Diary: Two Years in Okayama (as an un-secret agent)
Evidence of a passport renewal, the mustache means I’m a distinguished person to be taken seriously, right? Am I doing
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Ichiro and Ryoko (and moss and trees)
{You might have seen a sneak preview of this glorious snap but…} Behold!  My two lovelies, out in the
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Diary: mixed-media card, steps forward with projects (and tea)
+ Paints, Posts, Poems + (with tea) Construction underway, the elusive and complicated “operation turtle” {requiring lawyers & money but
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Personal Musings, Portraits of the Artiste
Diary: Dialing in Specs, more or less…
Took a few tries but getting fresh specs dialed in for my curious eyes. Thanks to Kenji Nishida-san and his
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Steady On, Time Travelers! {New Year Greetz, 2021 / Reiwa 3 令和3年}
{New Year Greetz, 2021 / Reiwa 3}「迎春」令和3年 Time Travelers – date and location undetermined Steady On Time Travel(l)ers! We’ll see
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O-shogotsu Food & laughs with Family
Just a few quick snaps from the mellow New Year’s time at the Fujita household – just me, Ryoko, baby
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Typing Intentions + Annotations (with coffee), New Year 2021
Did a little live streamed hang out while banging out some big picture themes and a bunch of practical to-do tasks {as well as a note to self}.
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Personal Musings
Best Year Ever Ahoy ~ 2021 / Reiwa 3
We won’t quite make it till midnight so… as we cuddle in at Tsuchida Cottage (in always sunny Okayama, Japan),
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Personal Musings
Happy Merry, All the Festive, Every Joyful
Fondly from Dave, Ryoko & Ichiro Stanley Thorvald of Tsuchida Cottage, Okayama, Japan on a usual Friday, Dec. 25, Reiwa 2 / 2020
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Note: Dec 25, out n about (with treasures) on a quest
Today is regular Friday here on Japan > we are on a mysterious mission {explain later} but along the way,
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Postbox Haiku Painting exhibit artifacts from the Goat Farm
+ Postbox Haiku Exhibit at the Goat Farm: In which I combine love of poetry, painting and postal mail and
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Personal Musings
Riff: Ghosts of Festive Losts {Christmas Any/no/elsewhere}
Sometimes you feel like a person left in the “lost luggage” room… You sit, you wait for the person to
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