Making Mix Tapes (with Taos incident story) in kura
Really, That’s it… just me in the kura studio, fiddling around making a mix cassette tape from a USB drive […]
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Riff: Japan, working holiday visa, 1992 (& related circumstances)
Before arriving in Japan, I really knew very little about Japan, I didn’t have an interest in Japan, didn’t care
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Japan “opens up”* / A few things about #Okayama
* to tourism (not everywhere, not everyone blah blah blah) If you are curious, Japan is reopening to independent tourism
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Kinfolk + Pals
Equinox at Ohaka, saying respectful hellos to the ancestors
Friday, Sept 23: Equinox day walk up to the ancestral graves for cleaning, incense and fresh flowers… as is tradition.
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Items: Hemp Shop for Custom Clothes in Pokhara, Nepal (2017)
While in Pokhara, Nepal in 2017 for extended Ayurveda treatment, i generally, wasn’t able to go out and explore aside
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: “vintage” postcard home from CJ81 scout camp
Vintage DaveO postcard from “Canadian Jamboree 1981” CJ 81 in Kananaskis Country, the summer i turned 11 yrs old (i
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Postboxes + Post Office: Sri Lanka x 3 (for #postboxsaturday)
“Well it’s already well into #postboxsaturday in Japan, and Sri Lanka as well, so here’s a trio of snaps &
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Artifacts: Nepal Relief Efforts round-up, Vancouver, 2015
Riffs and musings about Nepal In 2015, Nepal suffered a series of cataclysmic earthquakes, devastating villages… {I suppose it’s worth
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifacts: Patagonia Quarterly With “Do Boys” & Mountain Travel
Tidying up my archive and found issue 1, March 1985 of “Patagonia, A Quarterly Review” with the “Do* Boys Do
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Evidence: mix tape + items & projects (in the Kura studio)
After a pleasant coffee conversation with a pal in ATX, i headed to the kura barn studio to practice a
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Improving Campsite
Typhoon Nanmadol annotations
Really apropos of nothing, just a few unedited notes i sent out via social channels during recent typhoon here in
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Personal Musings
Will my “Prince Charles elementary school” ribbons and certificates be upgraded?
Declined an invitation (which never arrived), had things to do around the house after all However, thinking about how sharp
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Poetry Reading: Muriel’s Journey “Fire in the Heart” book + round-up
Gist: I read a poem at Word Vancouver online event with a splendid group of poets! Thanks to Isabella Mori
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Exhibit: Shimizu Hian Shodo Calligraphy in Ukan, Okayama, 2021
In April 2021, we visited a shodo calligraphy exhibition at a saké distillery with special floral arrangements made by Ryoko’s
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Healing Ramble: Peacock Ayurveda Garden ~ Dikwella, Sri Lanka, 2018
Gist: Along my healing journey, I sought treatment at Peacock Ayurveda Clinic in Dikwella (map to Peacock), close to noteworthy
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Postboxes + Post Office: Katsuyama, Okayama, Japan (for #postboxsaturday)
“Just hanging out by a beautiful pillar #Postbox with a fantastic noren curtain in historic Katsuyama, Okayama, Japan for #PostboxSaturday
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