Originally from the United States, I now live in the High Wisdom region in the Land of the Rising Sun.
I enjoy taking photographs and playing the most complex board game ever created.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A Delayed Calm
This is the last night I’ll spend in my own home for a long time.
Tomorrow I’ll embark on what will be the most difficult physical and psychological challenge I’ve undertaken to date - the ‘Henro’ Pilgrimage of Shikoku Island in Japan.
Tomorrow I’ll take a train to Kagawa prefecture, and spend the night in a hotel next to the 1st temple. On Sunday morning I’ll wake up early, eat breakfast, and begin the longest walk of my life.
Despite months of research and constant preparation for the past few weeks, due to the size of this endeavor my mind has yet to grasp it completely.
I do not feel anxious, excited, or nervous. OK, maybe a little nervous - but more like daunted.
Mostly I feel a sense of acceptance, the way I imagine a centenarian would accept death.
I feel a Quiet - casting a sorrowful, lingering gaze over the past decade of my life, and simultaneously drawing up the courage to raise that gaze to meet the incoming torrent of experiences which will ultimately shape what will become the next decade.
Cultivated Play: Farmville
The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations.
Bedroom WIP
Antique Japanese Partition with Ivory Inlays
Isamu Noguchi Rice-paper Lamps (sorry about the highlights being blown :( )
Wax-paper Umbrella covering a lightbulb hanging from the ceiling
This is very small room. Double-sized bed takes up the whole thing.
The walls are the next target! They’re stark white right now
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams (via nickdouglas)
lure:
Per Bak Jensen (via manymany)
(via shitgaze)
fuckyeahchaos.
If you want to get the plain truth,
Be not concerned with right and wrong.
The conflict between right and wrong
Is the sickness of the mind.
Seng-T’san, Zen Poet
