Diary: goat farm anniversary (tasty notes & snaps)
(Most of but not all) of a tasting menu for 17th anniversary of @ruralcaprinefarm & 3rd anniversary of @norikohinuma / […]
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Notes to Future Self
Diary: disintermediated ramble about preparing for rambles and stand-bys
Preamble: While planning for this trip to Vancouver & Victoria I’ve noticed that yes, obviously, a lot has changed (duh)
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Diary: Valentine’s Week “tasks” with Ryoko
Valentines week which means the darling wife and I are going to do some scrapbooking today (Monday) + this week
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Diary: Ryoko’s “Mack the Knife” singing show
In brief: Ryoko just rocked “Mack the Knife” & 2 other tunes at a matinee show Feb 11 2023: Ryoko
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ryoko & Me at Goat Farm
Photo at Rural Caprine (Goat) Farm where we met, captured by our first “official tourist visa guest” Kane Tan –
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Diary: New Year Shrine Visit, 2023
When we went to Munetada shrine during New Year festivities 2023, I purchased three prayer tiles as I have a
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel
Field notes: Kurashiki Jazz Street day-out snaps
Field Notes (brief) Kurashiki day-out during the “Jazz Street“ event (first in-person since 2019) with little pop-up concerts happening in
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Ryoko’s Artisan Charcoal (her company is: kinome-okayama.jp)
Preamble: Do you remember me telling you about Ryoko’s charcoal kiln? Anyhow, she built it herself, recently fired for the
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Kinfolk + Pals
Halloween out n about / minimal effort, moderate fun (w/ magic darling duo)
Briefly: Evidence of us doing the Halloween rounds this afternoon / including the magnificent Taroman pumpkin shriveling into repose &
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Japan Cottage Musings, Japan Life/Travel
Charcoal, Poetry & Postal + topics of varied interest
While the industrious senior ladies are cleaning the house, I fire up a machine to tell you about the following
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Kinfolk + Pals, Portraits of the Artiste
Snap: tea & coffee / kimono & hat
Today in “Beauty and the Beast” I’m just thrilled to be her sidekick :-) riding the bus together, her in
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Chooglin’ through September, logistics & whatnot
Chooglin’ On -– not on the Canadiana tracks this time, rather balancing logistical and creative life in a cottage in
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Kinfolk + Pals
Equinox at Ohaka, saying respectful hellos to the ancestors
Friday, Sept 23: Equinox day walk up to the ancestral graves for cleaning, incense and fresh flowers… as is tradition.
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Personal Musings
Musing: fires, volcanos, axe handles & cycle of children
March 13, 2022: I went to sleep last night – first night without a fire in the stove for some
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Museum & Musings: Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi)’s residence etc. / Matsue, Japan, 2018
In my first era in Japan, 1992-3 in Tottori, I vaguely heard about a “western” writer who had lived in
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