Comments on: Typhoon No. 14 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:53:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: butuki http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1147 butuki Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:02:00 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1147 Hello Inlandchi. Yes, I know I've been off for a long time. I keep intending to come back (and to make some major changes to the site), but I find that it has been difficult to get myself to commit to hours in front of the computer these days. Whenever I stop by the site and see all the hundreds of hours spent writing all those words I wonder what I've been doing it for. There are real people out there (like you, and some of whom have become real friends in the real world) whom I value a lot, but at the same time in the last few years in my personal life in the real world I have next to no friends at all (due a lot to living in Japan and other circumstances, like working at night when everyone else is meeting each other), so I've been trying to get out and be part of the real world again. No matter what people in the blog world might argue, the time in front of the computer will never come close to making up for what I need and want from meeting people face-to-face and from the holistic experience of just being flesh and blood. Having said all that though, I intend to ast least start writing more regularly in the blog soon. I'm redesigning the site and hope to redefine my objectives more clearly with the new design. I also hope to showcase more of my artistic endeavors in the renewed site, so hopefully that will be something worth looking forward to. Thanks very much for writing and reviving my connection here. When you fall off the map in the Net, you really fall off the planet, it seems! Hello Inlandchi. Yes, I know I’ve been off for a long time. I keep intending to come back (and to make some major changes to the site), but I find that it has been difficult to get myself to commit to hours in front of the computer these days. Whenever I stop by the site and see all the hundreds of hours spent writing all those words I wonder what I’ve been doing it for. There are real people out there (like you, and some of whom have become real friends in the real world) whom I value a lot, but at the same time in the last few years in my personal life in the real world I have next to no friends at all (due a lot to living in Japan and other circumstances, like working at night when everyone else is meeting each other), so I’ve been trying to get out and be part of the real world again. No matter what people in the blog world might argue, the time in front of the computer will never come close to making up for what I need and want from meeting people face-to-face and from the holistic experience of just being flesh and blood.

Having said all that though, I intend to ast least start writing more regularly in the blog soon. I’m redesigning the site and hope to redefine my objectives more clearly with the new design. I also hope to showcase more of my artistic endeavors in the renewed site, so hopefully that will be something worth looking forward to.

Thanks very much for writing and reviving my connection here. When you fall off the map in the Net, you really fall off the planet, it seems!

]]> By: inlandchi http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1146 inlandchi Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:25:15 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1146 Oh dear, "the aspirations we have toward a society of 'progress' are not real" sounds so final and hopelesss. I hope our aspirations are as real as the physical world or we are in deep trouble, aren't we? Well, I guess we are, but I just can't give up on the hope of a better, kinder, more sane world, even if I don't always see the evidence of that. Blogs like yours and others, which are like lights shining in the darkness, help me to keep that hope alive. I understand if you feel this was taking too much of your energy, but are you sure you have finished saying everything you wanted to say? I, for one, miss your voice. I suppose you have considered just a monthly or bi-monthly entry? In any case, hope you are well and happy. :) Oh dear, “the aspirations we have toward a society of ‘progress’ are not real” sounds so final and hopelesss. I hope our aspirations are as real as the physical world or we are in deep trouble, aren’t we? Well, I guess we are, but I just can’t give up on the hope of a better, kinder, more sane world, even if I don’t always see the evidence of that. Blogs like yours and others, which are like lights shining in the darkness, help me to keep that hope alive. I understand if you feel this was taking too much of your energy, but are you sure you have finished saying everything you wanted to say? I, for one, miss your voice. I suppose you have considered just a monthly or bi-monthly entry? In any case, hope you are well and happy. :)

]]> By: butuki http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1078 butuki Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:57:26 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1078 Sometimes I really wonder about that, Patry. There were about three years when it seems that's all I did. I found that I was thinking about blogging every where I went, to the point that anything that happened out there in the real world became a subject for my next blog entry. I even dreamed blogging at night! I'm finding now that I feel much more settled inside myself and much closer to what I call the "real world" (the natural world is real, the biological human world is real, the aspirations we have toward a society of "progress" are not real) when I stay away from the computer. Physically and mentally I do better, too. More and more I feel that a life of fullness and fulfillment can only work if one concentrates on how <em>little</em> one can get by with, not with how much. And as much respect for and conscious integration with the biological world as we can possibly learn. And is there ever so much to learn. Sometimes I really wonder about that, Patry. There were about three years when it seems that’s all I did. I found that I was thinking about blogging every where I went, to the point that anything that happened out there in the real world became a subject for my next blog entry. I even dreamed blogging at night!

I’m finding now that I feel much more settled inside myself and much closer to what I call the “real world” (the natural world is real, the biological human world is real, the aspirations we have toward a society of “progress” are not real) when I stay away from the computer. Physically and mentally I do better, too. More and more I feel that a life of fullness and fulfillment can only work if one concentrates on how little one can get by with, not with how much. And as much respect for and conscious integration with the biological world as we can possibly learn. And is there ever so much to learn.

]]> By: Patry http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1075 Patry Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:31:00 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1075 You've hit on the great challenge between blogging and life. Can they co-exist? You’ve hit on the great challenge between blogging and life. Can they co-exist?

]]> By: garnet http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1068 garnet Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:44:28 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1068 Best wishes with the Typhoon. I think you're right, storms will be getting worse every year. Blogging is a paradox. It's a window to so much reality, but it's not reality in your own life. I will have to set a schedule, like working, to control my tendency to lose myself in the blog world. Best wishes with the Typhoon. I think you’re right, storms will be getting worse every year.

Blogging is a paradox. It’s a window to so much reality, but it’s not reality in your own life. I will have to set a schedule, like working, to control my tendency to lose myself in the blog world.

]]> By: butuki http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1066 butuki Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:32:56 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1066 Dave. yes, I'm sorry about the comment registration. I hate it, but I hate spam even more. Every time I turn off comment registration the spam comes bowling in and I'm beyond wanting to have anything to do with it. Steve, I love storms, too. It's wonderful watching something so much more powerful and relevant than I am. Reminds me of just how picayune my presence is here on the planet. Also reminds me how petty all my vanities are, like my belongings and aspirations and convictions. I think the news always gets it wrong... they talk as if the planet has somehow done something wrong to us, but really it is we who live at the mercy and pleasure of the earth. Dave. yes, I’m sorry about the comment registration. I hate it, but I hate spam even more. Every time I turn off comment registration the spam comes bowling in and I’m beyond wanting to have anything to do with it.

Steve, I love storms, too. It’s wonderful watching something so much more powerful and relevant than I am. Reminds me of just how picayune my presence is here on the planet. Also reminds me how petty all my vanities are, like my belongings and aspirations and convictions. I think the news always gets it wrong… they talk as if the planet has somehow done something wrong to us, but really it is we who live at the mercy and pleasure of the earth.

]]> By: butuki http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/typhoon-no-14/#comment-1065 butuki Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:26:36 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/?p=224#comment-1065 I guess we were all lucky here in Japan. 14 has been throwing tantrums here in Tokyo, ramming fists into the walls of my apartment, but nothing as bad as I feared. Now that it's veering off into the Japan Sea things might quiet down a bit. I heard that the western part of Kyushu got 900 ml of torrential downpours, though, so all has not been lucky for everyone. The good news is that few people were killed or hurt. The bad news is that the typhoon season has only just begun. I wonder if Americans are taking into account that another Katrina might very well show up in the next few weeks? Is anyone planning now for the possibility? I guess we were all lucky here in Japan. 14 has been throwing tantrums here in Tokyo, ramming fists into the walls of my apartment, but nothing as bad as I feared. Now that it’s veering off into the Japan Sea things might quiet down a bit. I heard that the western part of Kyushu got 900 ml of torrential downpours, though, so all has not been lucky for everyone. The good news is that few people were killed or hurt. The bad news is that the typhoon season has only just begun. I wonder if Americans are taking into account that another Katrina might very well show up in the next few weeks? Is anyone planning now for the possibility?

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