seasons | seasons
Apr.30.2013
Yesterday in my neighborhood it felt like summer for the first time all year. It was as hot inside as outside. It was as hot in the shade as in the sun. I was dogged by lethargy and depression, and I thought, Oh, no - here we go again.
Of all the weather that I dread, summer is the worst. The heat...
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Apr.02.2013
Spring is a sketchy business where I come from. It comes and goes with the day, one day warm, one day cool again, like a boat trying to right itself in choppy water. Then you can wake up on some random Tuesday and not even see that the boat is under full sail, gliding out across a calm...
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Feb.08.2013
Last week, I went to three major social events in five days. That's highly unusual for a hermit who spends all day thinking about nothing but kanji and who generally likes it that way!
By the way, "hermit" is one meaning of 仙, the kanji of the week. Here's a preview of the new essay...
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Dec.14.2012
I'm eating the summer's blackberries with my breakfast and watching snow bunnies slipping down through a gray sky. Snow bunnies are like flurries, but fatter and more playful on the wind. White sprays outline evergreens and denuded maple and oak trees, and plays hide and seek with the...
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Nov.03.2012
While waiting for the mechanic to give me my oil change bill today, he mused how suddenly he saw Christmas decorations in the stores. He complained that he hadn’t even had time to be happy about Thanksgiving. I laughed and told him Christmas decorations have been up in the stores...
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Oct.25.2012
There are certain things or phenomena that announce seasons and having spent my childhood in the northern hemisphere in a city with four distinct seasons, I was accustomed to a rhythm of life that included cherry blossoms and tadpoles, strobili of equisetum (土筆 つくし tsukushi,) monsoon and mold,...
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Oct.19.2012
The seasons are moving quickly on us, as though, once decided, they want to get done. The rest of nature doesn't seem as sure about what's going on.
Lawns are still green. The cherry tomato plants are still blossoming and we just 'harvested' a few strawberries from our little plant...
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Oct.08.2012
Ah, like the changing of the seasons, so it's time for computer issues.
They are cyclical in their own way, following some sort of electronic cosmic flow. There is a logic to it but The week before, I wrote about issues with the MacBook Pro and its sudden inability to make a secure...
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Sep.03.2012
earth did not open up
to swallow showers
arid soil clung to
flowers
of a wilting summer
waited
for you
wiping stains of lips
pressed against glass
eyes searching clouds
for your face
joyful tears
your voice
choked silence
waited
days
stretching
months
breaking
waited
you burst today
in spasms
I am...
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Apr.13.2012
The birds are back. Some never left. A few are leaving or hiding. Nest construction and repair are underway. I awaken to sun and chirping. Bulbs are sprouting. Sammy Da Nose, our dog, is shedding his winter coat and so are we. It’s spring in Ohio.
In the Virgin Islands where I grew up,...
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