“Illegal Smile” at Nishiwaki Beach (w/ baritone ukulele)
Strumming along to classic John Prine tune “Illegal Smile” – a song, in this case, about the desire for a peaceful, […]
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Diary: i need quiet (grousing for no reason but so tired) #vent
I’m quite desperate for some long period of extreme quiet. Yesterday, an outing to our fave beach, “quite empty for
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Notes to Future Self
Nostalgia is a…
“nostalgia is a hobby for those not busy making the future” dvo PS i am nostalgic as fck 279 draft
Old Man Punk
Fresh out of defiance #draft
Fresh out of defiant slogansToo exhausted to scowlDone with rhetoric and angstGiven up on raised firstsJust my eyebrows for nowI
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Shoebox
28 years ago in Okazaki… JE to DO
“Your brother picked me up at Nagoya Station 28 years ago tonight, & hustled me out to his place in
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Post’d: long road to India and Metchosin wormhole
Dropped a letter in the mail on the way home from our unexpected seaside journey. First one going out with
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“Carey (you’re a mean old daddy)” on Baritone Ukulele at Nishiwaki Beach
With a straw hat and giggles at a windy beach, I plough through fellow Saskatoon-born Joni Mitchell’s “Carey” while thinking
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Diary: shaking it out, tidying up bamboo and looking ahead to YMCA school
Meanwhile, back at the cottage after returning home from Seaside for a bonanza of vacuuming, shake out, linen changes and
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Collections of Artifacts, Phones (pay + desk), Postboxes
Snaps: additions to usual collections (phone, postbox, ship, stamps and coffee)
Compiling usual additions to standard collections, ergo: * rotary phone (black, functional) at Tereya Cafe * postbox (6th floor of
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Diary: unexpected Ushimado hotel outing
Oh my goodness, what a topsy-turvy start to day… really going on for a few days since Typhoon(s)… While we
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Diary: expedition with Mac to ohaka
waiting for friend to pick me up to go visit his dear late wife’s grave on the side of a
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Ephemeral Tidbits
Diary: pyjamas and dinosaurs (& convention flashbacks)
Out and about to a dinosaur exhibition (wisely took earplugs, sunglasses etc.) and somehow came home with a fresh set
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#UW53 bus ride for van Gogh and back home deer & records
Breaking into the secret stash hauled back from the BC Invasion / JJBean Railtown roast ~ “dark and smoky” like
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Japan Cottage Musings
Royal Gratitude for #UW53 Birthday Greetz #trying
A fumbly stumbly but well-intentioned message of gratitude for sending fond wishes for a birthday and whatnot. Post-BC-trip for various
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Healing Ramble
Healing: sharing *my* MECFS story with Open Medicine Fdn (and 2 from ‘The Atlantic’)
My least favourite topic to discuss is my health situation, yet, unsurprisingly, it’s what I’m *always talking* about because well,
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Notes to Future Self
daveo53 / 16.8.23
Aug 16, 2023 = #UW53 postcards, books, cassettes, records, love letters, telegrams, fax accepted though certainly not required / just