2nd Wedding Anniversary Riffs (i would dye for you)
Always more to tell you but… Over the past three days we sort of revisited our 2019 three day wedding […]
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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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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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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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Diary: Two Years in Okayama (as an un-secret agent)
Evidence of a passport renewal, the mustache means I’m a distinguished person to be taken seriously, right? Am I doing
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Kura Cultural Curation – Japan Cottage Musings
Kura Cultural Curation – Japan Cottage Musings Riffs about home reform with new rooms, woodstove and tea ceremony area (thoughts
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Diary: mixed-media card, steps forward with projects (and tea)
+ Paints, Posts, Poems + (with tea) Construction underway, the elusive and complicated “operation turtle” {requiring lawyers & money but
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Personal Musings, Portraits of the Artiste
Diary: Dialing in Specs, more or less…
Took a few tries but getting fresh specs dialed in for my curious eyes. Thanks to Kenji Nishida-san and his
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Time Travelers in a New Year ~ Japan Cottage Musings
Quickly before running a bath, Dave – regaining equilibrium – discusses creation of a slightly-delayed but very-pleasurable project, ergo: “Time Travelers“ handmade
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Personal Musings
Happy Merry, All the Festive, Every Joyful
Fondly from Dave, Ryoko & Ichiro Stanley Thorvald of Tsuchida Cottage, Okayama, Japan on a usual Friday, Dec. 25, Reiwa 2 / 2020
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Note: Dec 25, out n about (with treasures) on a quest
Today is regular Friday here on Japan > we are on a mysterious mission {explain later} but along the way,
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Personal Musings
Riff: Ghosts of Festive Losts {Christmas Any/no/elsewhere}
Sometimes you feel like a person left in the “lost luggage” room… You sit, you wait for the person to
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Healing Journal: 7 years, so much between
As it goes, a photo from 2013 popped into rotation today: me as usual with beard, specs and art in
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Memo: Kei-truck Errand / Date <3
Out and about! On an errand (picking up a second hand roll-top writing bureau desk) in the Kei truck with
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Diary: Santa Land at Community Centre
Background: Just doing a Santa gig at a little local community center in Tsuchida, Okayama… Not a lot of kids
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Personal Musings
Diary, three unrelated stops
Today went “over the wall“ for some seitai treatment / stiiiiilllll trying to bust outta this ME/CFS crashmode. Good news
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