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I have never seen anything like this. Maybe, just maybe once in a film before.Outside my workplace window the world looks like, If hell was having a bad day, or if that fiery place ever had another side, an oppositte side, the oppositte of fire, hell would look like it does outside my window now.HardContinue reading “seen more,”

So right now, like right, right now I am sitting at my desk at work. It is a stellar nine o’five a.m. Outside the winds are blowing -blowing like mad. Stark, raving mad. I think that I have become so used to the banging, pulling, hauling, streaking winds so very much that when I wakeContinue reading “a winter running land,”

As promised, I’m back.There was a whole spatula-full of fun to be had on the HAJET 2012 Snow Tour. So let’s get right to it.First, I was late. I’m always late. I’m never late. Winter has not been too kind, but continues to live up to its reputation of harsh, harsh snow. My bus toContinue reading “we went, we saw, we won”

The day is coming. To such a date I have only heard about the mystical, faraway slopes that lie near the rump of Hokkaido. For years I heard about the powder, untouched hills in waylaid mountains. Dusted snow so deep and so fresh that it calls out, resonates across wavelengths calling people to come andContinue reading “I want your board”

Here we are. Spring has come at last. Or has it? Now not to trouble any understanding of Spring but last Friday was Setsubun. The day was a celebration of a division of the seasons. Practically speaking, winter has now been set apart and soon, very soon Spring will come -after this very snowy monthContinue reading “Spring, it happens”

A couple years ago when I was in a frenzy for all things Japan (and has that ended?) I found and read-up a fine memoir of a young fellow who came abroad to Japan and studied a year at a Japanese boys’ school. The title of that work? Inside the Torii Gate: The Journal ofContinue reading “I found it,”

This weekend I found myself aboard bus again, headed for a larger town than my own. This weekend was deemed mental health day. So I rode the bus past my town limits down into Sapporo. Needing a break, and just wanting to shop. I saw a mighty good movie, too -Fright Night. A motivated-horror filmContinue reading “mental health day,”

What a fine last few days it has been. Last week was something busy, finally getting back into the swing of teaching and commuting to work after the nice-needed rest of winter break. And goodness. Here I sit at the midpoint of this JET experience. A time for reflection and a time for forward-looking, consideringContinue reading “waiting for the door,”

Ever since arriving here in Japan and taking in the taking on of the life here I have been journaling. I have been journaling in effort to save my mind, save my brain from wonder and worry. I have taken care to utilize the cheap and affordable one hundred and something yen worth notebooks thatContinue reading “where the doors go”

Yesterday was a contemplative, almost-non usual Sunday. However, today I wish to regale you with, firstly, a brief and comprehensive post (is that supposed to be funny, you ask? Listen, I try to keep my writing curt…)-and then a more regular Monday one. But I’ve just gotta tell ya what yesterday was like. In theContinue reading “you should’a seen the stage..”