Arriving back in Kamiyama, coming in on the bus to Tokushima, was a little bit like coming home. Keiko picked us up at the station with a big smile and lots of hugs. It was overwhelmingly great to see her and the past year and a half melted away.
It's kind of felt like that in general, as though we only left for a brief vacation to Holland. We have the same house, Nik is working in the same studio, we have the same car (which was totally unexpected), Sayaka and Manus are next door in their same house, and Adam, an artist from Minnesota, is the next house over. It's like déjà vu/welcome home/time warp all over this gorgeous place.
Ahhhh, the air smells intoxicating, the views are spectacular, and I'm feeling the complexities of life drifting off into the cypress forest.
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| yay shinkansin grocery trolley |
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| Thank you for the warm welcome!! Pizza party with my boys, Sato-san, Keiko, Eri and Ira, The Rufus, Adam, & Yu |
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| Hopper enjoying his friends at long last... |
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| new friends |
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| playing under the lunar eclipse, an auspicious arrival |
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| sakura outside our home, with Manus |
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| ah yes, the compost bins, made pretty by the Howl and Sakura |
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| invitations already, open-fire yakisoba lunch at Keizen Center (HQ for residency et al)... |
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| ...with some lite entertainment |
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| they bloom, they fall |
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| they get peed on |
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| first green tea ice cream at Awa Cafe |
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| some lite parking lot weeding |
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| sakura walk |
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| duck and sniff |
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| it was unseasonably cold in the area so the sakura bloomed late |
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| with Keiko!!! |
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| that's how you know it's a party |
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| new air-pump rocket launcher, hours of entertainment (and pestering) |
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| fantastic pomelo from the farmers' market |
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| yay The Diner!!!! We so missed this place, it's amazing food and the lovely hostess |
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| Adam gave him some Chinese money, H said it was for ice cream |
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| chilly and moist but still beautiful walking home |
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