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Ume-zing spiced plum jam
All the ume trees in our yard are producing plums like mad this year. We made ume-shu and with the remainder of the first harvest I cooked up this jam. It’s really good. I’ll be making some more because we’re harvesting plums every other day now. Ume-zing spiced plum jammakes about 2 cups 1 kg…
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Tink’s many jobs
Months ago in Bangalore, my friend and colleague, Karthik, asked me about what sorts of jobs I’ve had. I started recounting them. it was a fun exercise in memory and I recalled all sorts of work adventures. I was sure I didn’t remember everything so after our conversation, I made a list. It started out…
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Memory Support, an art project
“Memory Support is a tribute to the forgotten stories of family and the remembered stories of friends. When the structure is full and and the cloth faded, I will burn it to send the memories to the sky, then bury the ashes to enrich the earth.” This has been quite a year of making, reliving,…
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25 Words
Be careful what you wish for. First Italy, Vietnam, and China with Rob then triangulations among Kamogawa, Bangalore, and Ephrata. Always home and always homeless. And all the 25 Word entries I’ve written since 2001: 2016 Half century joys: circus successes; drawing again; driver’s license; warm neighbors; loving husband. Sorrows: multiverse branched and Zoupi vanished;…
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Be 2018
My guiding theme for 2018 will be Be. It wasn’t my first choice. I had a different word in mind this autumn and I thought it was just right, but I didn’t write it down and I forgot it. Mustn’t have been as compelling as I imagined. Yesterday, I started over by browsing through the…
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Barely here (or there) all year.
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]I have written almost nothing here this year. It’s a pity because it’s been a tumultuous year full of adventures, love, fear and sorrow. I’m going to recap so that years from now I have the sequence of events right. It’s already a little hazy. January I bought a…
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Windy Day
A dust devil spinning itself three stories into the sky above the grocery store. A hundred seagulls facing into the wind as they bobbed on the choppy water. Dozens more gulls swishing in the wild winds over the harbour. A mountain of full-grown trees being brushed by the wind like a Kansas wheat field. A…
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Happy 2017
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25 Words
Half century joys: circus successes; drawing again; driver’s license; warm neighbors; loving husband. Sorrows: multiverse branched and Zoupi vanished; my heart broke; mould ruined everything. And all the 25 Word entries I’ve written since 2001: 2015 A new era began with Japanese eijuuken and freedom to do anything! We quit Tokyo for rural Chiba. Now…
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Open 2017
My guiding theme for 2017 will be Open. Some years, choosing the theme word for the year involves a lot of thesaurus consulting, debating and mind-changing. But this year it came to me in a flash and I haven’t considered anything else. Open is just right: honest, undecided, unobstructed, obvious, objective. I may find myself…
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