Cards and Scrapbooks – Japan Cottage Musings
Drinking a Turmeric / Reishi mushroom concoction in a stolen mug with a velour tracksuit, Dave rambles about misplaced “tribute
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: cards #61~65 “5ive Set / Farm, Minako, Canadian, Rice, Superstar” 12.2~9.2020
5 – count ’em 5ive – new #Ichiro cards for your on-going collection from early Dec. 2020 (Reiwa 2), series
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Japan Life/Travel
Dossier: Okayama Air Raid, 1945
+ Okayama Air Raid Overview + A delicate topic to ask people about but I finally found an English language
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Paint + Collage + Craft, Personal Musings
Painting / Haiku ~ exhibit intro and round-up
+ Provincial Poetry, Wine and Goats in Shibuya, Tokyo + Very proud to see my haiku postbox painting supporting sempei
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Personal Musings
Diary: usual days / summer’s end 2020 (ophthalmologist, peanut butter, cats, coins, plans)
This summer was a splendid fog of humid waves of action welcoming baby Ichiro amongst *all the world*. Yet, remains
Paint + Collage + Craft, Personal Musings
Painting / Haiku ~ on exhibit in Shibuya (representing Okayama Design)
My painting of a haiku on a postbox is representing Okayama design and culture at an exhibit in Shibuya (Tokyo),
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Kinfolk + Pals
Lost in the Aisle (variation on a theme, 3)
Variation: 3, with Ichiro Memo: Worth noting that through all the pregnancy and 3 1/2 months since he was born,
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Personal Musings
Diary: Spectacle update (part next)
Overview: Due to my absurdly complicated prescription, lenses are always fantastically expensive and, because I really wanted to have two
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Personal Musings
Diary: Spectacle update (Ryoko’s new glasses)
Behold! Ryoko Olson with 1 of 2 new pairs picked and elegantly fitted by Nishida optical in Okayama. Note: These
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Personal Musings
Diary: Spectacle annotations (re: dave)
Notes: Bottom: good shape but with the weird gradient coloring, found them distracting like an “reverse mono brow” hard to
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Personal Musings
Diary: Spectacle choosing (for Ryoko)
My super power is spectacle shopping (in this event, w/ endlessly adorable Ryoko Olson) Q: which 2 did we choose?
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Paint + Collage + Craft, Personal Musings
Painting / Haiku ~ catalog for exhibit in Shibuya
Artifacts from the Okayama design and travel exhibition in Shibuya featuring Mac Kobayashi’s magical goat farm & my postbox haiku
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Kinfolk + Pals
Community Centre (variation on a theme, 2)
Variation: 2, with Ichiro At a community centre for a kid’s clothes and stuff swap (clean and safe, don’t sweat
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Ephemeral Tidbits
Diary: Observed in Okayama (library, bicycle, bird, ramen, etc)
Over the wall, observed the following (sequentially below): * compass to sibling cities* pleasing canal (w/ public art)* (another) library*
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Collections of Artifacts
Items, observed: Camera and Radios (various), Okayama
Items: Observed / camera and radios (various), at a café in Okayama, Japan, Aug 2020
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Personal Musings
Diary: baby (items) exchange at community centre (+ census)
Census form packet came in post! Really starting to feel like I *live* in Japan now, (complete with adorable wife
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