tokyo – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Swamp in My Cup – A Gratitude Note from Bed

February 18, 2025

My plea for coffee continues to bear a wonderful beans… (in a previous video I should link here if I […]

August 12, 2023

Aug. 6 I tried to clean up some email inboxes, got a bit done, so much behind on correspondence of

December 24, 2020

+ Postbox Haiku Exhibit at the Goat Farm: In which I combine love of poetry, painting and postal mail and

October 26, 2020

+ Provincial Poetry, Wine and Goats in Shibuya, Tokyo + Very proud to see my haiku postbox painting supporting sempei

October 9, 2020

My painting of a haiku on a postbox is representing Okayama design and culture at an exhibit in Shibuya (Tokyo),

September 26, 2020

Artifacts from the Okayama design and travel exhibition in Shibuya featuring Mac Kobayashi’s magical goat farm & my postbox haiku

February 15, 2020

This scrapjournal is an “accordion-style” book (think that’s what you’d call it… though doesn’t create the dulcet tones of the

November 29, 2019

A rather rough overview originally compiled in advance of friends coming to Okayama for wedding. Re-purposed in slightly more general

June 1, 2010

Authour’s note: This article “Zen Rambling in Japan” by me Dave Thorvald Olson originally appeared in Heads Magazine (now defunct) in the