Diary: Ichiro starts Wakaba Nursery school
+ First 2 weeks of Nursery School (almost) finished + Our lil Ichiro Stanley was accepted and enrolled in a
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Meta: Sortganizing & Archiving {Errors & Omissions}
Gist: As i am undergoing an epically wonderful slog of personal archeology, i love the part where i find new
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Personal Musings
Diary: Grateful for hanami picnic (& projects finishing)
Grateful for the usual days (amongst the tumult) ~ Spontaneous picnic along the canal in pleasantly provincial Okayama. A few
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Writing Life
The History of Female Fire Lookouts (via Smithsonian)…
More about history of Fire Lookouts and their mountain perches, this one from the Smithsonian focusing on intrepid women doing
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Tsuchida Cottage Construction Roof Raising (time lapse + snaps)
After a 3+ weeks of digging out and laying foundation, connecting to various systems and preparing all the timbers with
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Notes to Future Self
Memo: “Time Travel is everywhere”
Time travel is everywhere ~ we pass the wormholes every day ~ devices disguised as common place but quite exceptional:
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Ichiro 9 months old (at Yubara onsen rocking yukata)
Ichiro Stanley Thorvald Olson 9 months old today. Don’t remember life before him – I have photographs, journals and vague
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Personal Musings
Riff: about Tsuchida Cottage construction + vids
A few notes originally written to a friend as a letter in Feb 2021 riffing about the “Tsuchida Cottage” (soon
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Items: Storage vessels & weighing weights
Containers and related at “salt house” in Kojima, Okayama for: * rainwater (perhaps) * weighing (salt) * koji (trays) *
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Spontaneous Snaps
Noticed: Kei-trucks at the cottage (+ couple more)
Perhaps more rare than Sasquatch, a Kei-truck that is *not* white {or every once in a while silver, or occasionally
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Post’d: Coffee break with fountain pen, Hey Rosetta & Mr Bragg
Construction outside, coffee service delivered for the workers, now giving my ears and brain a bit of a break by
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Spontaneous Snaps
Noticed: School uniforms (of a sort)
Observed in a community centre exhibit on an outing to Kojima, Okayama, Japan. Kojima is the “denim capital” of Japan
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DaveO Shop, Post'd (cards + letters)
Postcards to Elsewhere ~ Okayama to Orcas
Story: A distinguished gentleman on a small Salish Sea Island was smart/kind enough to order a packet of my custom
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Nostalgia for a Present Tense – Japan Cottage Musings
Nostalgia for a Present Tense – Japan Cottage Musings Amidst construction on Tsuchida Cottage, Dave runs-down recent events, both contemporary
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Diary: Café Poetry, Street cars, Seitai and Curry
As it goes: “Over the Wall” > Headed by bus for some medical treatment (seitai) trying to stay ahead of
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Collections of Artifacts
Stationery in Cinema, vol. 3 (2 ID cards, a painting, a telegram & a letter)
Due to an affection for stationery, letters, scrapbooks and whatnot, i notice such items when viewing moving pictures. As such,
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