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reggaejahm
2022-09-22 09:27
The Beauty of Ajisai
It is amazing how much we take for granted the little things. Yeah, I know this might come off as being a bit cliché but I think it is rather apposite in light of a recent discovery of mine. Well, maybe
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reggaejahm
2022-09-15 10:40
Another Day in Fuji San
Finally, the covid restrictions have been lifted, partially at least, so now I can explore Japan beyond the confines of my very small city. My sojourn brought me to Mount Fujimoto. After waiting for over
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reggaejahm
2022-08-12 13:21
One Day in Oshino Hakkai
My month long hiatus from everything I love finally ended with a trip to Mt. Fuji. I had been meaning to visit for the past several years, but Corona virus had me domiciled in my small city of Fujishiro
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Weekend Experiences
2022-08-12 08:47
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One Day in Oshino Hakkai
My month long hiatus from everything I love finally ended with a trip to Mt. Fuji. I had been meaning to visit for the past several years, but Corona virus had me domiciled in my small city of Fujishiro
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Weekend Experiences
2022-06-22 09:53
My Weekend Farm Tour
Since taking that spring trip to Nara I must say that I have developed a fondness for exotic animals, or should I say animals in general. Sure, as a vegetarian I have respect for all blood and bones specimen,
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CineTV
2022-06-21 08:11
CineTV Contest: Fantasia and a changing Perspective
Source Never again will a story be told as if it is the only one. John Berger In the early nineties when I watched Fantasia for the first time on VHS, little did I know that this film would be an annual
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Weekend Experiences
2022-06-20 09:14
[WE106] Weekend-Engagement concept-Personal life
Are you happy with the way your personal life stands currently? If so why, and if not, what would you change about yourself or your personal life to shape it into the life you would like to have? Love
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Weekend Experiences
2022-06-13 08:45
[WE105] Weekend-Engagement concept –Guilty pleasure
Write about some of your guilty pleasures, those things you probably shouldn't do or enjoy so much, but you do! List a few, explain why they're guilty pleasures and why you enjoy them so much. I have chosen
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Weekend Experiences
2022-06-07 09:28
Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Long before coming to Japan I had placed Kyoto and Nara was on my to-do list. But then covid hit and I found myself, like much of the rest of humanity, a prisoner in my own home. Coupled with this was
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CineTV
2022-06-06 08:58
CineTV Contest #17- Your Favorite Actor or Actress
Source If there is one actor or actress that moves me to the very core of my being it is Viola Davis. The first time I saw her act was in The Help, a movie about the lives of black domestic workers in
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Weekend Experiences
2022-06-05 02:29
[WE104] Weekend-Engagement concept (TWO YEARS OLD) - Two companions
You're going on a road trip across America or Canada for two months in an RV and can take any two people on the planet with you; who are they and why? Tell us about some of the places you want to see and
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Weekend Experiences
2022-06-02 10:18
Grief and Letting Go
Source It was with some degree of trepidation that I wrote my first piece for THE WEEKEND not so long ago. Such fear stemmed from the deep reservations I have about writing about myself. This is because
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CineTV
2022-05-30 04:57
CineTV Contest – Charlotte’s Web
For this the sixteenth installment of the CineTV Contest, we are required to write about a movie that most represents kindness. Below is my entry. Source “You have been my friend. That in itself is a
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Weekend Experiences
2022-05-27 21:03
Texas Goddamn
Laugh and cry: What has made you laugh or cry unexpectedly (or both). Explain your answers, the situation, why, when, and where. It is at the summit of a steep hill that one finds Toride Elementary School.
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Weekend Experiences
2022-05-24 09:07
Free Energy
All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources… Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need for coal, oil, or gas. Nikola Tesla
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poetry
2022-05-23 20:09
Coven Convention
Source After the coven convention had brought fear to all but bewitched hearts I narrated tales by lantern light; of a foul and fledgling land’s demise. Betwixt the wicker’s orange flame. Whose pointed
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Weekend Experiences
2022-05-23 09:37
My Longest Journey
“…become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities… acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims…” Friedrich Nietzsche This weekend
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Weekend Experiences
2022-05-19 19:42
Hanami
I am not one for New Year’s resolutions, however, last December I decided to use my weekends for two things – REST and RECREATION. After all, I work ten hours per day, Mondays to Fridays as an ALT in Japan.
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theweekend
2022-05-19 09:15
...to be
…I will be. Sometime. Somewhere. One day. Maybe. Not here. Of physical dimensions devoid. And bifocals are no more. I will be. To be. An honest one In the alleys. In the dark. To emerge from within. In
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The Ink Well
2022-05-15 20:54
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Ribbon
It’s been 10-years since I left. How horribly I treated you. For this I am contrite. To see you once again mother is all I ask. If it is not too much to ask. Tie a yellow ribbon on the door to say welcome
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