tonari no shibafu

Longest slide (outside of a water park) ever

Misa and I took a little bike ride today. The greenery-lined paths in Tokyo, similar to rail-trails back home, deserve an in-depth investigation, but for now, the pictures below are the result of following one (from the main Setagaya Post Office in Sangenchaya to Naka-Meguro).

There was also a cool climbing course.

One strange thing is that there were some memorial stones that were damaged. The damage seems too specific to be arbitrary and so I'd guess it was more redaction than anything else.

Japan, 世田谷

味噌

Took a year, but well worth it.

food

書き順

My wordtank doesn't have the stroke order for some characters. Good thing this site had it.

I love the internet.   

Language, Writing

８周年

此れからも宜しくお願いします。

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PSA: Uncanny Terrain

The Uncanny Terrain documentary is making an East Coast tour right now. Sunday night at the Hartsbrook school in Hadley.

Happy Hinamatsuri from Google

Not sure why

but I'm having some trouble embedding videos.

Oh, Captain my captain

O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted!

To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face!
To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with
    perfect nonchalance!
To be indeed a God!

O to sail to sea in a ship!
To leave this steady unendurable land,
To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the
    houses,
To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
To sail and sail and sail!

O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.