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haru
Nov 19, 20212 min read
Who Gives A Shit? (T)
It was the worst day of my seven-year-old life. On the first day of class in Grade One in Japan, I couldn’t find the toilet. Just back...
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haru
Nov 16, 20211 min read
Autumn Haiku Two
Pavement autumn leaves Soft colors fallen angels Beauty marks in time
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haru
Nov 13, 20211 min read
You is Kind
A reminder from carers who looked after us on #WorldKindnessDay: You is kind You is smart You is important Spoken by Aibileen to a child...
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haru
Nov 12, 20212 min read
WWI Zipper (T)
The First World War is hard to conjure up until the commemorations on French Armistice Day and British Remembrance Day roll around on...
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haru
Nov 8, 20211 min read
Autumn Beauty
Fleeting crimson branch Or staying evergreen tree Color, time, beauty
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haru
Nov 5, 20212 min read
Remember, remember (T)
“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be...
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haru
Nov 1, 20211 min read
Birthday Haiku
Teach me everything Be just as you are she said Happy Birthday Mom
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haru
Oct 29, 20212 min read
#SlitMouth & #Halloween (T & F)
We had one streetlight on the dirt path back home in the northern alpine foothill town of Karuizawa Japan. An older kid, BearHunter...
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haru
Oct 22, 20212 min read
Capeless Hero (T)
The Capeless Hero spends far too much time in the hospital, worrying about whether her patient would be better off with or without his...
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haru
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Anything Ragged or Rotten or Rusty (T)rue with (F)ictional Pseudonyms
A couple of months ago my next-door neighbor, Milly, died. A descendant of the original builders of the five coal-cellar houses on our...
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haru
Oct 8, 20212 min read
Messages For Keeps
With the worldwide Whatsapp outage, I spent a moment of the evening wondering how I ever existed without the digital messenger. But a...
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haru
Oct 1, 20212 min read
How To Be Old
The first time I met my husband, he asked me how old I was. Apart from my disillusionment regarding Frenchman and charming pickup lines,...
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haru
Sep 24, 20211 min read
The Space Between Light and Time
Autumn is my favorite season. The air is crisp and ready for transition. In this mid-September week, the sun casts its light in exactly...
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haru
Sep 17, 20212 min read
How to Sail Through a Storm
A couple of weeks back, I visited The Mayflower Pub in the Rotherhithe district of London where the Mayflower apparently docked before it...
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haru
Sep 10, 20212 min read
Revealing Necklines, Teat Bands and My Two Baabas (T)
Both my grandmothers wore kimonos every day until they died. When my maternal grandmother visited us in Singapore, she came wearing her...
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haru
Sep 3, 20212 min read
How to Cross the Road (T)
Eighteen months or so into the pandemic, I’ve come to pay more attention to the air I breathe, to the roof over my head, and of course,...
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haru
Aug 27, 20212 min read
Starry Night Whale (T)
For my husband’s post-lockdown birthday, the family sprang across town to see one of the two Van Gogh digital exhibitions in London this...
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haru
Aug 21, 20212 min read
Nikon, Pablo Picasso and Perfume (T)
What do Nikon cameras, Pablo Picasso and perfumes have in common? Even in these days of Instagram and social media, photos for me still...
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haru
Aug 13, 20212 min read
Dancing with the Dead & Firecracker Wars (T)
It’s Obon Season in Japan, a time to return to our hometowns and pay respect to our ancestors. In our summer haunt of Karuizawa in the...
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haru
Aug 6, 20212 min read
How to Use A Minute of Silence
Every year on the 6th of August the people of Hiroshima memorialize the victims of the atomic bomb that detonated above them with a...
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