Supporting Deborah DeSnoo — director, screenwriter, and performer. Due to recent changes in Japan’s immigration policies, she is being forced to leave Tokyo on January 23, after more than 3 decades. She urgently needs help to be able to buy her plane ticket and face this transition.

Mobile musical bamboo art by Matsumoto Akinori. #Akinorium

“We must always keep fighting for what we know to be right, even when it seems impossible.” Author Katherine Grant, 2025

獅子舞 Lion dance & Ebisu blessing

Our greatest Christmas gift is becoming parents-in-law today. 2025/12/25

Winter Solstice sunset. #WinterSolstice #TokyoBay

Holiday hanabi at the beach now. We can ~just~ see some of it from our balcony.

#NoTyrants rally in Shinjuku, Tokyo just now.

La Festa Autonno this afternoon in Makuhari Baytown. Italy-Japan Friendship Society event. #LaFestaMilleMiliga #LaFestaAutonno #MakuhariBaytown #ClassicCars

'Just living is not enough', said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.' ~ Hans Christian Andersen, 1862 “Sommerfuglen”

Weekend in Shizuoka.

At Good Trouble Lives On food bank donation rally.

Hometown fireworks. Maybe the last I’ll see.

To the republic for which it stands- one nation, grossly misrepresented by the use of God's name, clearly divisible, with liberty and justice dependent on your skin color and country of origin.

Honk if you love Democracy! #NoKings Outside the Brockton, MA VA Medical Center.

#NoKings rally in Brockton, MA.

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My goddaughter’s Indian + American wedding was joyful and spectacular. Unfortunately, now both she (an adoptee) and her groom (an immigrant) have to worry about their citizenship and status remaining valid.

Riding in the back seat of a Mustang convertible with the top down on I-495 on this windy afternoon with my hair thoroughly beating me! Feeling like a mix of Fast Car/Roadrunner/Good Times Roll. Gotta enjoy these moments while we can.

My dad enlisted in the Navy immediately after his high school graduation in June 1945 with his best friend so they could train and serve together. They were Seamen aboard the USS Mindoro, CVE 120, aka “The Mighty Minnie”, from October 1945 to July 1946. #MemorialDay

My Uncle Russ was an Army MP during the Korean War, stationed in Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. He served earlier in the Navy Reserve. He’s the one who lit my interest in Japan. #MemorialDay

My grand uncle was poisoned by mustard gas during WWI. He survived, but spent the remainder of his life (43 years) suffering its effects and from PTSD (shell shock) in the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea. The cost of war. #MemorialDay

Happy Golden Week! Koi streamers for the Children’s Day holiday, 05/05. (Formerly Boys’ Day holiday.)

Visited the in-laws in Osaka again this week. So many changed neighborhoods. So many tourists. So many delicious meals.

We have never seen so many foreign visitors for any event in this area during the past 29 years. Star Wars Cosplayers around Kaihin Makuhari station. #SWCJ

Urban oasis. #MesseMall We’re enjoying it while we still can.

“Spring and daisies came apace.” - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885

“The violet’s message was ‘Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.’ ” - Jessica Stern

And Sorrow laid abed with Spring. - William Morris, 1896

Got those fire-hazard-tax office Blues again.

“In grief we must live.” Author A.L. Jackson - 2024

Narcissus; I don’t want a part in this. - Paris Paloma 2020

Viaduck? 🥸

Local residents walking their pig beside the Hanamigawa.

Early plum blossoms. #MakuhariKaihinKoen

Good night, Fuji-san. #Mt.Fuji #MakuhariBeach #TokyoBay

Lunchtime view; looking north with Mt. Tsukuba at left.

The December drought caused a sharp rise in cabbage prices.

Kites flying at the beach. #MakuhariNoHama

“What good is the dawn that flows into day; the sunset at night; or living this way?” Mike Love, Brian Wilson 1963

Japan Post has kindly returned the 年賀帳 I’d sent to Canada over a week ago. The postal service strike there caused suspension of mail. JP pledges to refund my postage in full.

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Beautiful Minoh falls.

Got a skircle.

November roses in bloom.

Fuji-san at sunset from Inage Beach. Wondering how many sunsets we have left…

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