1) We’ve lived so many hours that the things we’ve forgotten far surpass the things we choose to remember. The people, and places, and names we’ve forgotten can only be brought back with a yellowed photograph or a dinner table mention or a song, and even then, it may be a struggle to remember. My cousin posted a photo […]
Read more“Tell Me Silently”
April 27, 2013 
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Falling out of the writing habit is a dangerous thing. Thoughts and ideas come and fritter away in idle conversation, on Facebook, and in the wind while talking to oneself. There’s no way to recapture snippets of thoughts. I learned a new Japanese phrase today over coffee, and just a few hours later, I don’t remember it. I […]
Read more“Sweeter Than Wine”
March 28, 2013 2 Comments
So different and so new…. It’s not different, nor is it new. Things stop becoming new quickly. We sound like imitations of ourselves. Our words aren’t new. The things we say to each other aren’t new; we’ve said them before to each other; we’ve said them to different people. We forgot we did. Then, it hits us; it’s déjà vu, […]
Read moreThere Are More Seas
March 23, 2013 2 Comments
Living in a foreign country can enable one, if they’re not careful, to become very solitary. It’s easy to withdraw into oneself when the primary language spoken is not one’s own, is incomprehensible, and sounds like nothing more than Charlie Brown’s teacher– “Wah wah wah wah wah.” Dear Friend and Friend and Friend and…, Living in a foreign country has […]
Read moreWe Know What We’re Waiting For
March 22, 2013 0 Comments
1) In this place, I’m not the only one waiting. Boys are waiting, girls are waiting, birds are waiting. It’s coming, and we’re all waiting. Some of us not too patiently, but I’ve been patient. The unraveling of these years, the tapestry of life, has taught me not to fight what cannot be controlled. I’m […]
Read moreRe: Visiting and Returning to Shimoda
March 22, 2013 4 Comments
(March 20th) Dear Friends, When I leave Tokyo, barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will be spring. The streets will be lined, as they are today, with cherry blossoms. Trees blooming and blowing pink and white. It will be the frailty of the buds floating, then crushed on concrete, and the balmy air mixed with smoke that […]
Read more“If They Say Why, Tell ‘em…….”
February 19, 2013 4 Comments
Dear Friends, My mother sent across many seas and rivers another package of “a few of my favorite things” (Chippies banana chips, lipstick, books, magazines); in the box was my copy of The Enlightened Heart. I haven’t read this “anthology of sacred poetry” in some time, and upon reading, I remembered why its poems are a daily […]
Read moreForeseeable Disasters
January 26, 2013 2 Comments
Dear Friends, A few days ago, there were prolonged tremors. Usually, the tremors last a few seconds or at most a minute, but the other morning, they seemed to go on and on. The shaking didn’t faze me at all, and in my half-sleep I thought, “Wow, I’m used to earthquakes now.” It’s amazing the […]
Read moreLove and Loss
January 16, 2013 4 Comments
There’s an album in my mind filled with snapshots of people I’ve loved who are no longer on this earth. I browse though it at random to relive experiences, hugs, and the warmth, that those loved ones have imparted. Sometimes I think, “It’s not time for those memories. Put them away.” Yet, the album comes […]
Read moreBuilding Blocks: Being “In Love”
December 28, 2012 21 Comments
“Please let me make a true confession, I have never been in love before.” – Bernard Wright (Who Do You Love?) You might think it strange to have as many conversations about romantic love as I’ve had this week, since I’ve never been “in love.” I’ve been in love with many things in this life: […]
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