Best Year Ever Ahoy ~ 2021 / Reiwa 3
We won’t quite make it till midnight so… as we cuddle in at Tsuchida Cottage (in always sunny Okayama, Japan), […]
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Personal Musings
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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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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Snaps: “Ichiro On Board” at Tsuchida Cottage
2 heads are… (Note: tracksuit, pappa’s uniform) photo by mamma Ryoko Olson at Tsuchida Cottage Dave and Ichiro at Tsuchida
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Kinfolk + Pals
Diary: Closing Circles with Stones ~ Grandmother to the Ohaka
Aug 19th was 49 days after Ryoko’s Grandmother Tomiko passed away at 94 years old, 6 days after baby Ichiro
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Kinfolk + Pals
Diary: Introducing Ichiro to maternal great-grandfather Fujii at Ohaka
Ryoko’s mother’s family name is Fujii, not to be confused with Father’s family name Fujita. Recently, paternal grandmother passed away,
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Japan Cottage Musings
Introducing Baby Ichiro’s Name: Japan Cottage Musings
A riff about (son born June 23rd 2020) Ichiro Stanley Thorvald Olson’s name including the kanji meaning and katakana writing
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Portraits of the Artiste
#daveo50 ~ 16.8.2020 (4 variations) #fini
Project: Upon turning 50 years old on August 16, 2020, Dave Olson (me, hello) is posting a photo (or maybe
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: 1 Month / 23.7.2020 (shrine, grave and various annotations)
July 23, 2020 Ichiro Stanley Thorvald Olson hit the one month mark since birth. For the record: born June 23,
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Personal Musings
Diary: Tie dyes for Ichiro + Deadhead treats from Brother/Uncle Dan
{Catching up with…} Leading up to Ichiro’s birth, another wonderful package arrived – this one from brother Dan (with postal
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Personal Musings
Diary: sewing things for Ichiro + tie-dyes and pee-caps
{Catching up with…} Scant days before our adorable baby came into the world, my remarkable wife fired up her mom’s
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios
Folio: “Sounding Board” family newsletter (guest edited), 1985
My dear ole grandfather, Robert “Bob” Stevenson (rip), (one of many Bob/Roberts in our extended family), fired up a family
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #13 “generations” #Tomiko / 5.7
Ichiro Olson, card # 13 “Generations” / 5.7 The past few days we’ve witnessed a powerful transition of life as
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