daily life/art/culture/justice and how they merge, clash, & play inside my northern state of mind (set in Hokkaido and Minnesota)
Free time for me, if it were a window, would be a slit cut into the fortress turret. With students streaming in for their graduate theses to be edited, with the demands of the readings and the group activities for my grad class in educational research, with the daily prep and teaching, the marking (long […]
LOST HAT I dreamt about that hat again although it�s been gone for two months now, slipped from my hood into the deep unplowed snow of the faculty lot. When I retraced my path, it had already vanished into the hands of a student or a professor who must daily marvel at the most curious […]
The poemcard called “A Fable” is written for my friend, the poet Kijima Hajime, who passed away last year. He will be missed! I met him only in words, we never met face to face, but through letters, faxes, postcards and emails, he inspired me with his joy of words, his mixing of drama, music, […]
Except for the atonal clanging and hissing of the ancient radiator and the hum of the electric fan heater and an inexplicable alarm’s buzzer (twice in three hours it has gone off for less than three seconds each), the day is an unusually quiet one. The students are absent, like chalk erased from a blackboard, […]
It has been a while since I last wrote in this journal: there was glitch at the ubc site, and access was blocked, and, alas, I was also running around in headless chicken mode, so that is another reason for the lapse…. My son and I spent a night in Sapporo this weekend. We took […]