Diary: Ryoko in the Garden (with belly)
Who is ready to give birth any hour/day but is outside tuning up a grape trellis with hand-cut bamboo? Yep, […]
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Personal Musings
Postboxes: US Mail Variations
“The classic U.S. home mailbox, with its distinctive curved top and front-facing door, has become an iconic symbol of correspondence
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: pickle jars & exciting times
Another jar of pickles / fermented for 6 weeks and opened today #carrots (no, baby still waiting inside Hotel Ryoko)
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Collections of Artifacts
Items: Zori sandals (handmade by Ryoko) x 2
Ryoko is doing all sorts of sewing and other creative work in preparation for baby as well as general use
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Japan Cottage Musings
Notice: Regarding Personal Archeology #daveo50 (video introduction)
+ Personal Archeology Project + From the kura barn studio, Dave offers advance notice of a curated exhibit of ephemera
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Kinfolk + Pals
Artifact: Grandpa in Uintas, 1940
My old dead Gramps Robert Louis Stevenson rambling around the Utah’s wild Uinta mountains in 1940.
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Portraits of the Artiste
Artifact: Giant Drum in Gonda #daveo50
I’m working on a project for 50th birthday… Requires extensive personal archaeology. As such, may I present additional evidence of
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Notes to Future Self
Quote: H. D. Thoreau (confined to a corner of a garret…)
“If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be
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Personal Musings, Post'd (cards + letters)
Mail Box Open for Delivery / Postal Info and Tips
Postal mail is now making the journey across oceans successfully. As such, you are invited to send letters, cards, dossiers
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Youngtime Dossier
Artifact: All the trophies…
All the prizes for this big timer / from cub car designing, drum corps percussioning, various science fairs, cross country
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Field Notes, Libraries / Museums / Archives, Personal Musings
Exhibit: Michal Korman, paintings and global gathering
{In what seems like an entirely different lifetime}, in early March we went to the seaside village of Setouchi for
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Music / Rock, Portraits of the Artiste
Memento: with Tegan and Sara, Vancouver, 2012
Note: Tegan and Sara performed a special promo gig for a Vancouver radio station in Dec. 2012 to which i
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Personal Musings
Diary: Kura studio hangout with records, cds, pins, plaques, flags and whatnot
Do you know how when a project gets underway and it’s all exciting and then it just kind of becomes
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Kinfolk + Pals
Memento: Mak-san comes to the Kura (grain barn) studio/hideout
Had my first visitor to the grain barn studio the other day and we send greetings / this is Japan’s
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Personal Musings
Diary: Immigration, Espresso, Photobooths
May 21: Time to extend visa/zairyu (foreign resident) card – form is simple and the quick/cheap photo booths everywhere make
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post: Jack Kerouac Bonanza from Lowell, Mass
Postal mail has been a little bit lean of late due to various restrictions and delays and whatnot but wow,
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