Yes, Postcards – again (but you know this already)
Yes, postcards, still always postcards // I don’t always tell you about recent dispatches but sometimes I start at a […]
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Diary: quick hits from Bizen Ceramic Fest
Pardon brevity: busy times there! (years past much more mellow) but we visited our friends The Hosokawas [kiln firing, studio
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Diary: hospitals, lunch, postcards, bus… just the same + ramen & moon
Preamble: I am hereI’m tryingI’m flusteredI changed my outfit twice (possibly more)because autumn remains elusiveSeveral checkpoints and transfers aheadYes, flustered
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Personal Musings
Diary: December 25 is normal day (& i see you if you are blue) + ahead to New Year
Happy December 25, no matter what your clock and/or a calendar says. Important: A note to folks dealing with chronic
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Shoebox
28 years ago in Okazaki… JE to DO
“Your brother picked me up at Nagoya Station 28 years ago tonight, & hustled me out to his place in
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Diary: various errands + wild boar foreshadowing
Today: Brother Dan’s birthday in Japan time (got him The Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime reissue 2xvinyl) Next: 8/2
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Memo: iced coffee pour-overs and legendary okonomiyaki
this afternoon’s pour over ice coffees made with “Lion brand, pride of Hawaii” beans – note charcoal in the water
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Personal Musings, Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: figuring *it* out with coffee & cards
Trying to find my… I don’t know next path/ purpose/ quest… or just getting my “sea legs“ back under me.
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Personal Musings
Memos: immigration mustache + pallets & Colombian
Immigration office in the morning, hoping for a five year zairyu extension. I’m sure this mustache will make all the
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Diary: A Rollicking Reentry from BC Invasion
Back from #bcinvasion trip a week / heck of a reentry, ergo: Tomorrow (Sunday) nephew Lee (13 y/o) is going
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Diary: a night out to say “Gracias” to Gracias
Took kid to a bar (really & not irresponsible parenting) the kind of tiny hidden away place on one of
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Japan Life/Travel
Four views of a coffee shop (and thoughts about small places and tipping)
Four views of a cute / shabby coffeehouse noticed while waiting for the pharmacy to finish up (with what will
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Phones (pay + desk), Postboxes
Kurashiki corner with postbox, phone booth + several bonus items
I love it when you find an “double“ with postbox and phone booth (with phone book) side-by-side / in this
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Personal Musings
Secret Lunch Café (and remembering friends on a path)
So after medical treatment yesterday, snuck into secret cafe which had 1 patron (me) & offer only 1 kind of
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Item: Boots (at Hospital) + safety ramen
Today’s boots and socks combo for hospital visit. #looksharp / easy on and off is key in Japan / gotta
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You, Me & the Algorithm
Just wrote a “song” (more of a sprechgesang) – working title: You, Me & the Algorithm (trying to figure out
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