Ryoko climbing Ginkgo tree
My wife at work – trimming Ginkgo biloba tree at a shrine – Edo-period age, cutting away from power lines (didn’t […]
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Kinfolk + Pals
“The Present is…” notes and projects around Kura (post box, poems, flower pots)
The present is an unfinished poem ________. Let’s Enjoy! Note: my kura is the official Cascadia Consulate for the Setouchi
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February, farewell (mostly rebuilding)
Like January, February saw a lot of time spent at hospitals and doctors but added in a funeral, taxes in
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Items: record shop stop (feat. BTO Japan Tour)
yesterday, report / diary: Finished medical appt and somehow a magnetic impulse pulled me into a tiny record store –
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Tsuchida Station: Sign Post project (fun with cartography)
Blurb: Now that the major parts of our renovation(s) are done and we settled in, turning our attention to “improving
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Improving the Campsite (odds and ends diary)
A little bit lost – &/or found – of late, but the dishes are finished, laundry started and the rabbits
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Japan Life/Travel
Event: Kominka Summit, April 2022, Kyoto
To: Friends in (mostly rural areas of) Japan Re: Minka Summit 2022 (not just for Kominka) in Kyoto-fu Memo: Folks
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Diary: notes from the slow lane (curling, quiche, errands, taxes & flowers for Mom)
This disinter-mediated and somewhat timeshifting rundown of miscellaneous annotations and notes from the last week may not make sense entirely
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Diary: Leaving India ~ rapidly, in a fog (Nov. 2016)
Note: transcribed with light editing from my scribbled journal made in “real time” – as always more to say but
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Items: arrived by post (regarding poets and ramblers)
Three items arrived by post: a card and dossier of treats from a rambler in Salish Sea (w/ lovely inky
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Collections of Artifacts
Item: National Geo with India trains and Japan map + many treats
National Geographic magazine, June, 1984 – ordered from Hokkaido Market ¥500 incl postage. Cover story about India railways (*rather* condescending
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Diary: Really nothing *big* however, life carries on
Feb 10 Great magazine arrived, National Geographic, June 1984 with cover story about trains in India + history of Japan
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Items: 3, unrelated (signs, robot, art)
hung some framed art, resurrected classic laptop, painted signs to places
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Notes: Ken Babbs’ “Cronies” book + chapbook & Doug Peacock
Here’s a hilarious fresh, sharp interview with Merry Prankster/Marine vet/farmer/writer and *the* Intrepid Traveler Ken Babbs talking about his new
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Diary: a day in the life(ish) – woodstove, meta-ness, voting, tidying
Good days and bad days and wind and rain on rotating Mondays… Got up / some things done yesterday {hung
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List: books of note / recent-ish (from a bus)
Semi-legible list of recent books read… in bed a lot recently so staying off the robot screens and looking at
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