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Art Therapy
Two days in a row this week I was feeling wildly out of sorts: trapped and self-absorbed and generally bad. Was the heat to blame? Lack of exercise? I couldn’t quite figure it out, so I did my own personal art therapy. I sat down with my sketchbook yesterday morning and doodled the things that…
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New Moon, New Month
Today is a new moon and the start of July. I am taking the advice of my friend Heather (and several religious practices) to set intentions and begin new projects now. If you’ve followed along here for any length of time, you know I like To Do lists and usually my goal setting is quite…
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Audition
A few weeks back, a friend connected me to his agent for a specific hoop-related project (which hasn’t come together yet) and now the agency has been contacting me about other jobs. I’ve been in Tokyo for 13 years and have never once been to a modeling audition or even considered myself modelling material. But…
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Windy Day Bubbles
Today is hot and gusty, perfect for enjoying the beauty and fun of soap bubbles. I stuck a huge wand into the breeze and this is what happened. Visualizations of the wind, irregular streams buffeted into single bubbles and carried high into the sky.
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Solstice Sketching
This morning was sunny for the first time in what feels like a month. And today is the solstice. What a precious gift of a day. I celebrated by going to the park to hoop (and skip rope and juggle). I intended to be gentle to my recovering shoulder, but I’m not sure how one…
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Electroshock
Yoga may have the appearance of a gentle sport, but don’t be fooled. I managed to massively overstretch my rotator cuff in a vicious Thread the Needle last month and keep reinjuring it doing Chaturanga. So, having bollocksed it up again yesterday morning, I decided to seek medical attention at my favorite sports clinic where…
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Another Rainy Shoot
This time, I had an umbrella. The photoshoot in the middle of yet another Sunday downpour was taken by Chel Beeson and will be used on a website for an onsen resort here in Japan. I love my ad hoc modeling gigs. The photos depict me and my mate Phil as a happy couple enjoying…
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Plans for Summer 2011
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Everything in between
I keep trying to write about the aftermath of the disasters but I have little new to say. Things in Tokyo are fine; disruptions are either settling into routine or are fading away. At the same time, everything up north is not fine. What is striking all of us now, even in the safety of…
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Intermediate mood
I’m feeling sort of stuck right now. Maybe it’s just me. Probably so. All my personal plans from before the quake are on hold – things that were dreams, goals, and wishes, projects, major life changes. They all became less important than the pressing need to help relief efforts. But the relief efforts are growing…
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