Memento: Birthday Tarot reading (in scrapbook), 2016
I’m of the mind to believe in everything and nothing, and keep my mind open, except when it needs to […]
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Healing Ramble
Personal Musings
Diary: Anniversary and Art Supplies
Coffee is brewing here at Tsuchida cottage as we kick off our three day anniversary fun times… We’re going to
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Japan Cottage Musings
Haikus, Garden + Baby News / Japan Cottage Musings
Wearing a smoking jacket at Tsuchida Cottage, Dave riffs on recent activities including: planting vegetable garden, playing piano, buying baby
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Personal Musings
Diary: Getting a handle on the Kura “sort-ganizing” project
Round-up from the kura barn/mixed-media-creative-studio-in-process… Next up, going to attempt to carry up a big shelf cabinet – then, hopefully
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Personal Musings
Diary: Suitcases sorted with scraps and books
Update: each of these majestic suitcases now carries a specific subset of collections, ergo: one has dossiers and scraps and
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Personal Musings
Diary: Unpacking the Kura, day one (collections of collections, vinyl, books, suitcases, typewriters…)
Notes from the kura barn (day one): As I opened up dozens of boxes today to kind of do a
Personal Musings
Diary: Hats & Scarves aplenty
Day one of unboxing in the barn produced 21 hats and 13 scarves (categorizing the Arab head scarves as scarves
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Personal Musings
Diary: 40+ years of projects into a “kura” grain barn
Big day (Thursday March 19) here at Tsuchida cottage as my life archives completes a long journey by a ship
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Personal Musings
Diary: Sort-ganizing the Kura with Kerouac
Recently my entire life archive of projects, scrap books, journals, paintings, various art, artifacts, scarves and hats and of course
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Personal Musings
Diary: Hermiting, baby, art, archive & you you you + us us us
I hermit like Obi-wan is his “lost years” / indeed, a Gen X kid with a lot of hobbies and
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Personal Musings
Riff: Creativity in solitude(ish) / from experience
I went from being very social and active to often housebound due to a chronic and complex illness, and spent
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Personal Musings
Diary: Coffee in Tiny Café / refuge from the storm
Japan has loads of a little tiny cafés/restaurant/bars which are like less than 10 people maximum, often with a little
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: New Year Tea Ceremony at Matsuka-sensei’s house
Studying tea ceremony… I’m not sure if studying is the right word, maybe practicing, refining or just enjoying… with a
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Personal Musings
Diary: Christmas Concert with Mae Maes and Friends
On Dec. 22nd at a store in Tsudaka, Okayama, Ryoko and her Mae Maes bandmates held a Christmas concert with
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Christmas Eve, Day and Boxing in Okayama, 2019
Christmas isn’t really an “event” in Japan, more of a marketing campaign and a prelude to New Year’s Eve which
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Christmas Forthcoming / out n about and at home in Okayama, 2019
We headed out on some errands to return the felt sheets used in the tea ceremony at assassinated Prime minster
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