Diary: quick hits from Bizen Ceramic Fest
Pardon brevity: busy times there! (years past much more mellow) but we visited our friends The Hosokawas [kiln firing, studio […]
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*Dinosaur* Fish – buy it, cut it, eat it in Noto / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Sensei keeps sensei-ingCutting dinosaur fishFrom morning auction #dro420 While visiting the brilliant and magnificent Hongo sensei on the Noto peninsula
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Hosokawa-san’s Bizen-yaki pottery / sake cups for #DRO420
In the middle of a night leading up to our wedding preparations #DRO420, we visited notable Potter (and Ryoko’s friend) Hosokawa Takahiro
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Diary: hospitals, lunch, postcards, bus… just the same + ramen & moon
Preamble: I am hereI’m tryingI’m flusteredI changed my outfit twice (possibly more)because autumn remains elusiveSeveral checkpoints and transfers aheadYes, flustered
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(what so funny) about peace, love and understaaaaanding? (anyway)
Question for you: What’s so funny about peace love and understanding anyway? Soliloquy & song from a laundry room on
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Spoken + Song, Ukulele Goodtimes
(What’s so funny about) Peace Love and Understaaaaanding
Question for you: What’s so funny about peace love and understanding anyway? Soliloquy & song from a laundry room on
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Writing Life
Annotations about Tolstoy + (thoughts about his writing and life)
(Harvested from various comments, articles, and sundry places) You probably know about my epistolary literature, project “Letters from Russia” hand-written
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(a list of) “Things to Look Forward To”
Feeling a bit blue with a broken foot, and some other mental health and physical health challenges – like I
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Outing: Live House Bird Christmas jam, Dec. 2022
Amongst our outings, me and my darlings Ryoko & Ichiro, found ourselves at Bird Live House [map] here in Okayama
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Collections of Artifacts, Typewriters
Item: scissors (green handle, made in Nashville)
While these snapshots are hardly exemplary, someone once asked me about my new scissors purchased at “The Papery” in Victoria,
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Grateful Dead “Fare Thee Well” – 2015 (Lomo / colour), vol 2 – concerts
In the summer of 2015, the “core four” remaining members of the Grateful Dead set out to put a capstone
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: Sri Lanka to New Zealand – exchanging audio and paper postcards
My goodness, what started with an audio riff recorded somewhere I can’t even imagine, archived dutifully, lost and found so
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Batches of Records – indie rock, much Canadiana + awsum musical women
In my Kura barn studio (wearing a zip up cardigan) some months after returning from a trip to former home
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Earthen walls, creator collective, holiday schemes and busted foot dreams
Hanging out in a shady place with baritone ukulele waiting for kids to go by collecting for the festival, I
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Vignettes: busses, hospitals, sandos, baths and walls
observations, in a reverse order if you are noting chronologies: Yesterday, a spark of independenceSimple as it was, as it
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Museum: South Australia Maritime / Adelaide, 2015
*Adelaide Epiphany at South Australia Maritime Museum* While I’m tempted to dive into a whole soliloquy about my time in
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