finding *ways* to spark (in precedented times)
out of tune with world, yet sending sparks, backyard fire storytime: Appropriately out of tune both with the world and […]
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so, you’re coming to Japan? oh good! dig tactics
yes, yet another overview of traveling around Japan, possibly with links to other narratives and videos about traveling around Japan. Usual variety of tips, anecdotes, tactics and my love of minor provincial cities, goat farms, coffee, tea and jazz… Plus post offices well, you know all this by now
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UW55: friendly birthday greetz for “double nickels on the dime” – Choogle On #127
A 55th-birthday audio diary from Kurohime, Nagano — ukulele in hand, heart on sleeve. Reflections on breakages and rebuilds, gratitude for friends who’ve stuck around, and apologies where due. Dreams of parallel lives, flashes of déjà vu, and notes of creative persistence through the years.
Originally released as a photo-filled slideshow from the past year
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Nagasaki Ramble, Feb. 2020, part 2 (baths, bombs, bevvies… more trains)
Unnecessary Preamble: part 2 of a trip to Nagasaki in February 2020 – we were in pregnancy mode, visiting relatives,
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Noto Roadtrip Diary – Postcard #92
Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa
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Bashō haiku, with a view
septemberick highways and byways of Japan feature often spectacular, usually interesting, and always unique roadside service areas sometimes gift shops,
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Showa TeeVees (at Lake Biwa museum)
Turn off yer TeeVee (put it in a museum and listen to the rain) Amongst fossilized freshwater fish, recreations of
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Lake Biwa, Shiga-ken: Museum Dispatch
A last minute entry to Lake Biwa Museum with a cornucopia from: Plus overhead freshwater fish environments; to reconstructed elephant
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Hello & Good-bye from Noto, post earthquakes & whatnot
A very brief check in from a peninsula sticking out like a witch finger towards Siberia, with stellar nature, endless
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Grand Maizuru Field Notes to Pals
Awkwardly on Hiroshima day with the model of a Zero fighter plane and battleship (with merchandise available for purchase) behind
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“i miss folding your laundry” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn montage
A not-quite-documentary. A semi-sincere travelogue. A heartfelt dispatch from the radium-scented alleyways of Misasa, Tottori—a place I once called home
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“letting the days go by” Misasa ♨️ Soujourn, p.7
After yet another long soak in an outdoor bath – this time with a loudmouth geezer running his mouth about
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“to walk & to listen” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.6
After a long hot soak with some unexpected (and usually not-allowed) colourful characters, sitting outside with a statue commemorating the
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“our lady of Radium” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.4
Radon, derived from radium is the central magic potion to these Hot Springs so, as such I wondered towards a
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“tea & oranges” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.3
Back at my lil “café nook” from the outdoor bath – because that is what I do, I take baths,
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“we are not 2, we are 1” Misasa ♨️ sojourn, p.2
Carrying on with personal archeology for biographers who may never emerge, I sit (respectfully of course) at the shrine –
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