The Running Month

December in Japan is called the month that runs.  It feels that way.  Blink, and it’s over.  Just realizing I’m seeing probably the last snow of the year.  I wonder how I’ll look back at 2008 in the future.  Right now, it’s a year that I definitely will not want to revisit.  At this very [...]

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Birthday

I had the strangest birthday ever this year.  Not only that it was a number that many seem to make a big deal out of, but of incidents and occurrences that surrounded the event and days after that.   I also realized, that I have always stressed that I was not a “Birthday Person,”  I don’t [...]

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Speed Blogging

Can it be that all of July went without me blogging a word ?  One blogs when there is a POV.  Or the need to rant.  Or the need to ponder.  Or the need to commemorate an occasion.   Could it be the whole month of July, I had no need for any of those ?
Yet [...]

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Pose Envy

Getting new computer means having to organize a lot of things to migrate from the old to the new. It’s a process similar to going through your closet agonizing over what to throw away and keep.
In my digital photo albums that I am trying to organize, I don’t have a lot of [...]

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Blessings

I thought this might be a good time to count my blessings.
Aside from a somewhat life altering and unwelcome incident that is taking place, not much is cause for dejection. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from one that many consider to be the guru of design, telling me that he would like to work [...]

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Pure Darkness

I don’t want to sound melodramatic. I still believe one can endure anything. Banal as it may be, it’s the “this too shall pass” attitude that is built-in most of us that helps us. But there seems to be no end to this. If a sin [...]

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Solitude

Sudden feeling of isolation is just that – sudden. I have never been that afraid of being alone. In some strange way, I like the feeling of being sequestered. For example, nothing tops being in a party and the sense of relief when you get back to the room [...]

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Pot of Tea and Anger

After a relatively serene trip to Japan, I came back once again to the reality of frustration and anger. My frustration, but not my anger.
I’m not stranger to anger and like anyone, understand how unproductive it can be. Rage hurled towards airline ticket counter person when flight was canceled for no reason and they [...]

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Blog Etiquette

So, three months have come and gone since I started this blog. I don’t think I have yet picked up the groove, going slowly and posting eclectic thoughts as it comes. I look at other blogs and marvel at the responsiveness of bloggers to those who comment. And the prolific comments rewarded [...]

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Life’s Greatest Mystery

So I’d like to start my blog with a ponder for great mystery. Where do all of one side of the earrings go ? Earrings, they never get lost in pairs. It’s always only one. Gone, never to be seen again. And of course, always your favorite or the expensive [...]

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