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Two Weeks in July
While Tod was in Singapore, I took a self portrait at a highlight moment of each day.
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Anxieties
Tod’s away and I seem to be alternating between crazy thoughts and productive actions. Today I combined the two to create some sketches of the crazy thoughts, personified. This ratty goblin plagues me at night if I leave the closet open. He bites, gives me nightmares, and settles bad fashion sense on me while I…
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Shape of Today
My day was spent traversing the city in a most inefficient but still sort of wonderful way. I had a ukulele lesson (1), collected my forgotten camera and Colleen’s ipod from Roon Roon (2), returned Colleen’s ipod to her (3), and ran some errands (4). Look at the pretty shape I made as I moved myself around town.
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Summer 2012 Conservation Tips
Setsuden – power conservation season – begins on Monday. This summer there will be no nuclear power generated at all, which means 11.8 gigawatts less to use. It’s made up for in part by coal (an unclean nightmare) and small increase in renewable sources, but the upshot is we have a little less power this…
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Generations Past
The Hills. (l-r) Roy, Elvis, Lucian, H. B., Bettie, Eupha, and Omer Dean + two memento mori & a dog. This is my great-great grandfather, Henry Berton HIll, my great-great grandmother, Bettie, and five of their eight children. I’ve seen their names in the historical records, but never any photos until today. My great-grandfather, Bert…
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Solstice Breakfast Guest
It’s been way too long since a friend’s called us after missing the last train home – just about everyone’s got kids now and they are far too responsible to be out drinking late into the evening. So what a delight to hear from UltraBob last night. Yay! Midnight greetings and digging into the stash…
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Making Music, part 2
Rob checks levels as Jesse strums my ukulele and Swinky vocalises in my bedroom. Months have elapsed in the quest to make a song for the World Hoop Day Dance project. Shortly after writing the previous post in mid-March, I gave up on the lyrics and turned to the music. Huw and I created…
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The Postman Rang
On the weekend, I had mailed a little box of goodies to some friends in Australia, where there are strict rules are about what can be admitted into the country. I know not to send seeds, plants, raw foods, wood, and dried grasses so I was careful to avoid those sorts of things. But I…
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Out of my Closet
(Sorry, not that kind of out.) There is no good reason to have as many clothes as I own. Later this year I will be living out of a backpack while I travel for a month and I’m hoping to repeat the backpack era again at the beginning of next year, so the seasonal wardrobe…
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100 kids
Yesterday I participated in an event at the Sullivans School on Yokosuka Naval Base. It was a day of workshops and activities that focussed on multiple intelligences. You won’t be surprised that I was teaching a hoop dance workshop. In my 40 minute sessions, kids learned ten tricks and we strung them together into a…
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