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Move 2013
This is the fifth year that I have selected a word to guide me in the coming year. I display it near my desk and use it as a mantra when I am in doubt. For 2013, my theme is move. This was a tricky one. The first move I think of is “move house”…
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Close to my heart, not on my calendar
In an online chat with a friend this morning, I realised that with the exception of Tod, my closest friends rank among the people I see the least often. I connect with online acquaintances daily, my teachers weekly, hoopers monthly, my true friends as whim and winds dictate, and family not even annually. A few dear…
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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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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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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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The Great Outdoors
I love being outside and the longer I am in nature, the better I feel. Camping on Niijima is one of the highlights of my year. Over the Golden Week holidays we hosted Guru-guru Camp and stayed at Habushiura campsite for 13 days. It was blissful. The weather was as predictably unpredictable as always. There…
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Unrelated thoughts
I keep having ideas for blog posts – topics meaty enough to be more than a tweet or status update on Facebook – but for whatever reason I talk myself out of writing up my thoughts. I’ve fallen out of the habit of blogging, and that’s a shame for me (maybe not such a big…
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Equinoctial Thoughts
Today our planet has made another full circle around the sun and our day and night are equal length. It’s a public holiday in Japan. Following the Buddhist tradition, we clean graves and remember the dead today. I have no grave to clean but I honor my father every year on the equinox, the anniversary…
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