Apr 19 2003
It’s been so long that I had nearly forgotten about the impact of seeing one… I was sitting at the computer with the window wide open to the sky when the quality of the air began to alter, something almost like burning. I looked up and over the roof of the neighboring apartment an enormous [...]
Apr 16 2003
What to say when you see Iraq falling apart and America’s “brave” soldiers shooting into protester crowds? What to say about anything happening with this dirty war? I visited my father yesterday and we discussed what is happening for a while, but our hearts weren’t in it. For almost two years now we’ve been bombarded [...]
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Apr 14 2003
A tiny yellow jumping spider huddled on my computer room’s window screen yesterday afternoon, absorbing, as so many creatures are doing these days, the sun. It was the first spider I saw this year (partly because I have barely been out and haven’t been poking my nose amidst the bushes enough), but like every time [...]
Apr 14 2003
What is happening in Iraq has left a sense of numbness and ineffective anger. I wonder if the Americans realize that by exhibiting such heartlessness and indifference to the people of Iraq all design for winning the heart of anyone who is watching as a fellow human being has died with the burning homes and [...]
Apr 12 2003
Was supposed to get out of Tokyo and spend two days camping on Kumotori-yama (Mount Cloud Catcher)... actually not really outside Tokyo, since Greater Tokyo’s tentacles’ farthest reach extends to the top of the moutain… but just as I was about to go to bed last night my computer (a Mac, OS X) had a [...]
A German/ Filipino/ African-American who grew up in Japan, it's not really my genes that matter to me, but the timbre of place and kinship. If there is anything I would rather be doing, that would be a long walk in the hills, be it alone with my camera and sketchbook, or with a good, like-minded friend.
