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Things my father told me
After the blast, there was no sound, people’s shadows, crushed into the ground, the dark abyss of humanity’s soul - revealed by an act - unspeakable, foul
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Microcosmic Stupors
“Charlie Sheen files lawsuit” Who gives a rat’s?! “I’m desperate to get on the field”, says Benjii Marshall. Oh, who cares? “Hawkins hot engagement…” Blah, blah fishpaste “Triple M woos Matthew Johns”...
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Black Swan Event
On guard for meteorite and alien But not for this Black Swan within Can’t trust the earth beneath our feet Broken Japan, with you, we weep
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End of a Dream
C-sharp minor plays through the eaves of this house, wind-cold emptiness, the ambient noise of destruction where laughter once lived, Shoji, last opened to plum-blossom whispers, now lachrymose with...
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Act of God
Image via http://www.sxc.hu Across this hopscotch land strange days stretch out to sea, where ancient forests stood, now ails a lone pine tree, spared from an Act of God, not so children as they flee -...
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Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project |...
Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project | The Japan Times. Voices from Japan - PDF of Japanese Tanka from survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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The Beauty Of It
Oliver Sacks is loving it. Frederick Wiseman forgets that he’s it. Ellen Langer thinks that it’s possibly nothing but a mindset. In Japan, they know how to style it. Ginza O-Fashionistas Forget the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction
Flying over Typhoon Phanfone to the Land of the Rising Sun For more entries to the Refraction photo challenge, see The Daily Post.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle
Often in the crowd a ghost flies by in a smile, in a walk in the twinkle of an eye. A Wild Night in Tokyo For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post. (Although, when I last...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow
Taxi – Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo If you love people-watching, Shibuya Crossing is a fascinating place to linger – just a pity that there are not enough decent outdoor street-level cafes to do so. :-( For...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
Things My Father Told Me After the blast, there was no sound; people’s shadows crushed into the ground; the dark abyss of humanity’s soul revealed by an act – unspeakable. Foul. For more entries to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
What I noticed were the birds: the heron high hunched against a silent sky so many pigeons, too, symbols of peace, in view the scavenging crow safe to peck ground zero. What do they know? For more...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth
One of the things that sticks in my head from a photography course that I did is the instructor’s mneumonic for depth of field settings: F-stop 2 = 2 fence posts; F-stop 22 = 22 fence posts. For more...
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Remembering 3/11
End of a Dream C-sharp minor plays through the eaves of this house wind-cold emptiness, the ambient noise of destruction where laughter once lived. Shoji, last opened to plum-blossom whispers now...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Fresh Noodles – Tokyo See The Daily Post for other takes on this week’s photo challenge.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet.
Robot Restaurant Floor Show For more entries to last week’s WPC, see The Daily Post.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
Stylish in Shibuya I’m lazy technically when it comes to photography. Part of the problem is that I have two sets of glasses and never seem to be wearing the right pair when I want to take a photo...
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Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani
The friendly, helpful staff at Kanazawa Station Visitors’ Centre advised me not to attempt a day trip to the Snow Monkeys from Kanazawa. Not unsound advice, but I ignored it anyway (as I only had time...
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Smile
I chatted to this chap while riding the spectacular Tadami Line in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan in January. He has travelled all over the world and, now retired, loves to travel on the Japanese...
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