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 [...]
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 [...]
Not this Thanksgiving
How do you feel about Thanksgiving? How do you feel about Independence Day? What do you think about Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, even Christmas? What goes through your mind those days and weeks before they arrive? Do you even notice them as they pass by or [...]
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 [...]