Never stops

Really a trip to the local Heiwado (like Walmart) is all one needs for
entertainment.

Friendly staff

Always on hard to assist you.

Fountain aesthetics

I like how they design the fountains so that the water is flush with
the walls. This one is nice because the water just creates a veneer
over the block.

Green tea everything

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マキノ Lifestyle,
Ryan

Aphorism

Leave them be; their world is filled with somethings; for you it will always be somewhats.

bikes

She Say Murmur

tech

Ah Japan, so high tech in your anime and yet, cassette tapes for sale in the store...

nabe

Nabe rules. You cook a big pot of soup and everyone serves themselves. I got myself a Nabe burner and pot. Now I can make Nabe at home.

Dr. Evil Subway Attendant

Environs

Nomunication.

Nomu is drink in Japanese. When people drink together the communication increases. We call it nomunication.

Lent Day 40

Your disappointment is not the source of your unhappiness. Look instead to when you appointed.

Day 39

The question creates the answer it seeks.

Day 38

They describe without claiming implications; like a government who claims no citizens. I've learned, this is a tyranny.

Day 37

Images evoke immediate experience. Light coming from one's countenance is not only a painting, but also a possibility.

Day 36; Parable of the Lost Coin

What woman, having ten silver coins, when one is lost, does not count the nine every night to ensure she retains them? And she says to herself and friends, "at least I did not lose two, like my neighbor, or three, like those in distant lands."

Lent Day 35

I stopped taking vague advice long before I started ignoring vague insults.

Lent Day 34

It is impossible to be one thing. Why keep trying to be myself?

Lent Day 33

Renga is a collaborative Japanese poem. Haiku is the first stanza of a renga, originally called the hokku in the Renga. The art form evolved into a serious aesthetic endeavor with contests and many forms. The poet Basho is the most notable leader of Renga. This poem can go on for many stanzas, but I will just invite you to respond with one stanza. This short renga is called "tan-renga" and can be created between friends, teacher and students, bloggers, lovers, and hopefully earthling and extraterrestrial in the near future. The leader starts with 5-7-5 and the response is 7-7. The ingenuity in renga is seen in the connection between the two stanzas, or how the second person creates a new meaning. Dozo.

Spring draws thoughts kindly
lost loves return without sting
venom turned to sap

Lent Day 32

My face shines not down upon you, but to show that yours might shine too.

Lent Day 31

The mystery brings peace to my eyes, not blindness.



-Porchia

Parable of sorts

Every solution presents new problems. I corral my problems and watch over them, wondering what they will grow into, and what they will provide for me. If a man like me has one hundred problems and loses one, won't he go into the mountains and seek the problem which he has lost? And if he finds that problem again, will he not rejoice more for that problem than for the ninety nine?