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The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?

Today felt a lot different than yesterday did. I awoke this morning and felt lighter, alive, and full of purpose. Clouds that had been hanging over my head for over a year had finally dissipated to reveal a bright blue sky (or rather gray but with a nice warm breeze). What could have happened to [...]

Procedure…A-B-C, 1-2-3

What I don't have anymore

‘Excuse me, I seem to have lost something,‘ I said gaining the attention of a station attendant standing next to a ticket window. ‘Just a few minutes ago my iPod fell from my pocket and I was wondering if someone stopped by here and dropped it off.’ Kyoto station at [...]

Check please!

Time to call it quits like these leaves

Something dawned on me as I sat staring at my computer at work last week. How it had slipped my mind after thinking about it so much I don’t know but it did. I pulled out my wallet to check the date on my Japanese green card [...]

Just a little bit more then them…

Sometimes it's like walking up a mountain

Persistence. Here in Japan it is an essential quality and those without it quickly leave (or are somehow by buffered from reality by an unknown force and stay on for years blissfully unawares). I’m not talking about the persistence a tourist needs to find an out of the [...]

The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?

Procedure…A-B-C, 1-2-3

Check please!

Just a little bit more then them…

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