Evidence I’m alive and rebuilding/reinventing/rejuvenating…
Here’s me and Ichiro at the Tsuchida Matsuri
Working through a lot of conundrums from spinal discs to immigration status.
Thank you to a few very kind people for cards and letters. No greater tonic aside from frolicking with this kiddo.
xo dvo
{This end of this summer is not melancholy for m/we, no one leaves to school or to deserts or even to foreign lands, it just ends with a storm}
August ends
September begins
Ganesh comes to visit removing all obstacles.
“All of them Ganesh, all of them?”
So we go on:
Two big plans
in one week, next week –
for now,
The power returns
though I remain in the dark
waiting a turn.
typhoon weather
morning teapot fills up
with rainwater
On my stated list of objectives for this year, I plan to:
1) Learn to play a song or 3 on baritone ukulele to amuse my baby boy. I’m up to 4 chords but strumming still clumsy. Sorta figured out tabs & even printed Early Morning Rain & Landslide & Wheat Kings.
Also
2) Learn to read/write Japanese characters *properly* since I live here, I figured it would be handy – ugh. Noting I’m much better at place name and personal name kanji characters that I am at phonetic kana – thank it’s the same misfiring neural synapse is that prevent me from memorizing the most basic of phone numbers #Dyscalculia
3) Probably something else but I’ll stick to those two.
PS (Really there’s a mighty long list of things to do for putting the house back together, fixing up yard & garden, as well as “life administration” tasks but file the above under personal improvement/enjoyment).

Goodbye Summer, Welcome Autumn! This was the mentally-toughest, creatively-un-inspiring, professionally-deadening, un-vacation-y season ever
