Explaining saké… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Sushi hitherto unknown Yet pressed into translation help Explaining sake to Germans
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Personal Musings
Personal Musings
Grateful, various
Grateful for healthy (and fun) friends, new (and persistent) family, bamboo forests, fresh flowers, and most especially for sweet Ryoko.
Personal Musings
Thanks to Vendors and Helpers / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
Note: what follows is the information as was printed upon a sheet which was included in the gift bags as
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Personal Musings
Agape for Agape / a few post-wedding notes #DRO420
Grateful for Love Heart so incredibly filled with love as I piece together for the last 10 days of a
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Personal Musings
Osaka Tasks to Okayama Home / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
Thank goodness I’m a country boy… Back in our little home on the outskirts of a under-appreciated provincial capital after
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Personal Musings
Consulate to Tram to Ramen / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
After affidavit at Honorary Consulate of Canada located in the Tsuda lumber yard in an industrial port area of Osaka
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Personal Musings
Grateful Annotations / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
Head melted from an incredible gesture of kindness which completely shocked and surprised me yesterday / don’t mean to be
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Personal Musings, Portraits of the Artiste, Tactical Wandering
Diary: (Comfortably) Lost in Translation / Arriving at Kansai (KIX)
Upon arriving at Kansai (KIX) airport, i immediately went to post office, konbini (for onigiri, pocari and royal tea), then
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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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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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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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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Mementos: Japan Misasa Onsen town
“You can’t go home again” says Thomas Wolfe, and i’m cool with that as i don’t have a “home” however,
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Personal Musings
List(s) of Grateful-tude
Grateful for:* David Bowie music* Wes Anderson films* Rumi poetry+ fresh notebooks & inky pens#3gt Grateful for:* music of The
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