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Archive for April, 2009

and blew the season away…”

It’s the same every year. It’s pretty for a while.
Then the weather turns….the wind rises and it’s gone.

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I was stopped by the police for swerving all over the road while I was driving home on a rainy night.
“Have you been drinking?” they asked.
“I was trying to avoid the frogs” I answered.
“Ah, I see” they replied and let me go. There are advantages to living in a at least nominally Buddhist country.

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wherever I lay my hat…

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messing around with K.

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Does “美し森”

mean “tacky”?
What’s so beautiful about this?

I suppose I could ask someone to take them down.
But why bother.

That’s better.

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The other day I was asked why I chose to live here.
“Just look around!” I replied.
The conversation went rapidly downhill after that but the scenery was not to blame.

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There is a beauty in things weathered and used. No artifice, no sleight of hand. What you see is what you get. There is neither confusion nor intention to deceive or impress. No architect, no design and no compromise.

When was the last time anyone built anything as beautiful as this?

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Election posters, noisy old ladies and a nice pair of shoes.

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Portrait of a Lady

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ไม่เป็นไร

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The taste of tea…

I can see China from my house…

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