Diary: Kitchen > Nepali daal, and kaki jam
Made a big batch of (vaguely) Nepali lentil dal. Ergo: Two colours of lentils, plus some garbanzos just because, onions, […]
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Personal Musings
Personal Musings
Diary: Kinome make gardens for people (in a parking lot)
Ryoko has her own small company doing tree trimming, garden planning and various workshops (like tree trimming for seniors) and
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Personal Musings
Life Update: “there are both persimmons and pomegranates…”
Life update, various: There are both persimmons and pomegranates in the kitchen. I sent a fax. Discussed naps (&/or maps)
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Personal Musings
Communication comes in waves…
Somehow sometimes the communication comes in waves and today was a day when I heard from so many people –
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Music / Rock, Personal Musings, Portraits of the Artiste
Mementos: The Wailers in Vancouver / drummer and drum case
As seen at The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, maybe 2014 or 15 or really i can’t recall. (note to self, figure
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Kurashiki Out n About + Musings about changes, economics and entrepreneurship
The magical art city of Kurashiki was holding a Jazz Street event with loads of bands playing at various venues
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Personal Musings, Social / Startup / Cmty
Riff: Fuzzy difference between craft and art
Can often be a fuzzy difference between craft and art / technique vs idea – I feel that art requires
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Picking up rice
One day in late October, we were invited by a relative to pick up a bag of freshly-harvested rice for
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Personal Musings
Canada Election Ballot 2019
As usual, I voted in the Canadian Parliamentary election which is noteworthy as 2019 was the first federal election to
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Personal Musings
Today(ish) to Observe (from bed) + Godzilla made of cicada husks
Canadian election Japan Emperor enthronement Brexit meltdown round x oh the Kurds! Revolutions and insurrections globally, various (esp Chile, Ecuador…)
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Personal Musings
Ofuro bath at Tsuchida Cottage
Two notes: 1) The bath is the most sophisticated piece of equipment in our home… A click of a variety
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: Pickles and Ferments / Tsuchida Cottage (2 batches)
Fermenting & Pickling Bonanza! Cucumbers, Daikon, Garlic, Peppers (various), Onion etc. Some anaerobic fermenting in seasalt brine. Some pickling in
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Personal Musings
Drive Away Cars from Florida: Levon’s Story (and mine)
Levon Helm’s autobio “This Wheel’s on Fire” sizzles. I especially like this part: “First I went to Mexico and lived
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Personal Musings
Creativity Ahoy! Scrapjournals, Paintings, Poems, Ukuleles and all the future…
Back on to the content flow… so much to share created in past few months, ergo: * 8 new blank
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Okayama Regular Life, spring-ish / ramen, friends, singing, coffees, shrine, farm, graves etc.
After all the friends came and went from the wedding festivities in April (including a hospital stay by one intrepid