May
31
Wahkeena Trail
* Columbia River Gorge—Partway up Wahkeena Falls Trail
* Small stream running over many rocks surprisingly noisy
* Still no other humans
Latest
May
30
Wahkeena Springs Tree
* Columbia River Gorge—Top of Wahkeena Falls trail
* Temperature was cool after the 1600' elevation gain
* Baby chipmunk (chipmunkling?
Apr
10
Random Kotowaza #1
若い時に流さなかった汗は、年をとってから涙になる。
What you don't sweat out when young turns to tears with years.
About Kotowaza.
Apr
06
Takuboku Tanka #3
花散れば
先づ人さきに白の服着て家出づる
我にてありしか
When the flowers fell,
The first to put on white clothes, and go outside
was me.
Mar
18
Early Spring Tanka 2017
After months of matte gray
sky, I finally get a glimpse
of the sun's wry grin;
As welcome
Mar
12
Takuboku Tanka #2
東海の小島の磯の白砂に
われ泣きぬれて
蟹とたはむる
On this small Pacific isle’s coast
on the rocky shore’s white sand,
I’m wet
Feb
04
For Irish Blood
Background
We have so many phrases involving digging. Gandhi: "To forget how to dig the earth and tend the
3 min read
Jan
29
Kenji Miyazawa: Not beaten by rain
Translation
Piece: Not beaten by rain
Writer: Kenji Miyazawa
Not beaten by rain,
Nor beaten by wind,
Nor beaten by
1 min read
Jan
28
How to stoke a flame
Like a draft, His chilling hands slink in through the cracks of our coils,
and husks us away. No coincidence
1 min read
Jan
24
Takuboku Tanka #1
はたらけど
はたらけど猶わが生活楽にならざり
ぢっと手を見る
I work
and I work,
but life gets no better;
I look fixedly at my hands.