Riff: about Tsuchida Cottage construction + vids
A few notes originally written to a friend as a letter in Feb 2021 riffing about the “Tsuchida Cottage” (soon […]
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Personal Musings
Spontaneous Snaps
Noticed: School uniforms (of a sort)
Observed in a community centre exhibit on an outing to Kojima, Okayama, Japan. Kojima is the “denim capital” of Japan
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Nostalgia for a Present Tense – Japan Cottage Musings
Nostalgia for a Present Tense – Japan Cottage Musings Amidst construction on Tsuchida Cottage, Dave runs-down recent events, both contemporary
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Diary: Café Poetry, Street cars, Seitai and Curry
As it goes: “Over the Wall” > Headed by bus for some medical treatment (seitai) trying to stay ahead of
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Time Travelers ~ art card project dossier & variations
+ Steady on Time Travelers, variations + While doing a photo shoot for Ichiro’s 100 days at Homare Photo Atelier
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Diary: Two Years in Okayama (as an un-secret agent)
Evidence of a passport renewal, the mustache means I’m a distinguished person to be taken seriously, right? Am I doing
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Portals, vol. 2 (postboxes, milk delivery, phones etc)
Post boxes & milk boxes – mysterious doors and other wormholes to places in time, observed on a stroll in
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Kura Cultural Curation – Japan Cottage Musings
Kura Cultural Curation – Japan Cottage Musings Riffs about home reform with new rooms, woodstove and tea ceremony area (thoughts
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Steady On, Time Travelers! {New Year Greetz, 2021 / Reiwa 3 令和3年}
{New Year Greetz, 2021 / Reiwa 3}「迎春」令和3年 Time Travelers – date and location undetermined Steady On Time Travel(l)ers! We’ll see
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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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Note: Dec 25, out n about (with treasures) on a quest
Today is regular Friday here on Japan > we are on a mysterious mission {explain later} but along the way,
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Postbox Haiku Painting exhibit artifacts from the Goat Farm
+ Postbox Haiku Exhibit at the Goat Farm: In which I combine love of poetry, painting and postal mail and
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Memo: Kei-truck Errand / Date <3
Out and about! On an errand (picking up a second hand roll-top writing bureau desk) in the Kei truck with
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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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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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