Posted by: elephantdreams on: October 20, 2009
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 15, 2009
Today at Rogakko, I taught the students the story of Dreamcatchers, and we did arts and crafts. Later, we had a Ballet workshop with the entire school.
Lieutenant, please file today under “Super Special Awesome”.
Other great stuff:
I climbed the Bizan in the dark, and was not eaten by wild dogs.
I learned how to play a song [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: July 19, 2009
Man oh man, it’s all new kinds of hot now.
I did turn on my air-con because I’ve been at home during the day and really do need it. Ah well. It had to happen sometime.
Today is a matsuri down in Komatsushima, “Harbor Festival”. I don’t know if I want to go, but I think I’m [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: July 15, 2009
Tonight at Awa Odori practice, I wore my geta for the first time.
Remember when you buy a new pair or a poorly made pair of sandals, and the bit that goes between your big and second toe chafes from here to Dixie?
Yes, well it’s like that, except you are putting all our weight on [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: June 23, 2009
So the more I read about the things happening in Iran, the more it was seeming that as a number of countries (read: the US) have some interest in the situation, their fingers were perhaps pulling the strings behind the spontaneous outbreak of a color revolution.
At first, that made me feel crabby, because a [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: June 11, 2009
Current Activity: Cooking dinner (Indian curry and couscous)
As the weather heats up and the Awa Odori practices become regular night time occurrences, a curious thing happens.
Things become familiar.
Hearing the sounds and smelling the smells of this time of year actually triggers memory for me, and that’s amazing. Because I was here 11 months [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: May 16, 2009
I woke up today, Sunday, glorious Sunday, at 6 am. As I went to sleep (glorious sleep) at 1 am, I think to myself that maybe I ought to just stay in bed for a bit more. And so I do, laying there, idly turning over some thoughts that had visited me in my dreams. [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: April 23, 2009
My! So things happened.
I went to Hiroshima. It was quite an experience.
The flowers bloomed. These are by the train station in the countryside.
Japan has a crazy number of flowers everywhere, for a country with practically zero grass.
I rode my bicycle. A lot.
I have no idea what I would do without it. Probably [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: March 22, 2009
Well, the musical is over. My weekend life for the past couple of months is completed.
We did the last show of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” in an old kabuki theater. It was an amazing audience, filled to the second level and ready to clap and laugh at all the jokes and dances. As soon [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: December 4, 2008
I just got in from Heart Tokushima and a shamisen lesson (but more on that later). I’m thinking about animals. When I got home, I saw this video. It’s of a walrus “playing” a saxophone.
On one hand, I really like this video. I don’t see many walruses, and I really like their faces. I also [...]
