Quote: J. D. McClatchy, regarding poets
“A poet — as distinct from other, perhaps more persuasive, kinds of writers — can only unstitch the weave of […]
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Writing Life
Japan Life/Travel, Notes to Future Self
Riff: Japan Imperial Era Names, a brief primer
Maybe you noticed my affinity towards dropping in Japan imperial era names in reference to “Showa this” or “Taisho that”
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: Cards Received, Jan. 2020, various
What a postal bonanza of late! Dispatches from Budapest, Nozawa onsen, Connecticut, Vancouver, Valencia + Kanazawa’s D. T. Suzuki museum
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Collections of Artifacts, Portraits of the Artiste
Memento: Barber (vol. 4, only Okayama)
A little coif maintenance with a friendly barber named Touse-san in the neighbourhood called 理容タカシマ PS I am the one
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Starting off 2020 with Coffee and Classes etc.
So it goes, the festive season passes yet calendar stays busy with the usual sorts of things. Yesterday included returning
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Personal Musings
Diary: Opera Day with Kimono and Seijinshiki + Piano Recital
Heading to opera today / Ryoko is purple kimono with silver obi & orange sandals. Stunnnning. Also complicated (it ain’t
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Personal Musings
Diary: New Year’s Bar-b-q at Kobayashi’s Rural Caprine Farm
On January 3rd, to continue celebrating the new year, we organized the parents, uncle/aunt and cousins to head over to
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Personal Musings
Diary: New Year’s Holiday “Kojo Piano Club” Friends Music Party
Note: In the day’s between / around New Year’s – there are plenty of activities… today’s activities include hanged up
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifact: “Sticker Walls” etc (various dives), vol. 1
Here and there i see “sticker walls” in various bars, toilet rooms of bars, taverns, dives of all sorts, or
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifacts: License Plate Wall in Pe ELL, WA (partial view)
Anecdotally I’ve heard that technically you can’t publish/post/publicize photos of license plates (number plates in some areas) however i’ll assume
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