Japan

15 : Sun Versus Son

15 : Sun Versus Son

I've been looking for things to do before finally getting out of Tokyo, the walls are really starting to close in on me here, even after having met some great people and finally going to a party that Tatsuya, the one Japanese friend I've made thus far, threw at this amazing place right on the river. That was a necessary experience for me, really. Even so I cant stay in this megalopolis forever, there's so much to see! Tokyo is cool and all, but if you think its all you need to see in Japan I need to know what you've been smoking?

14 : Moving Impulse

14 : Moving Impulse

I've been in Tokyo two weeks now, and believe me that's not what I had in mind when first coming to Japan. Actually its the exact opposite. Even without a plan of any kind my heart always longs for the country, the small towns and tight knit communities they foster. I may be old fashioned, but the big cities just don't feel very welcoming to me. Some people love them, thriving off the palpable levels of frenetic energy oozing out of every square inch of concrete and steel, longing to go from one novel excitement to the next. Tokyo is surely that, only times 38 million, and I can feel my inevitable departure from this megalopolis coming, and soon

13 : Life After Death

13 : Life After Death

"Okay D, so you've died and been reborn to a life that is shiny and new. That's great, but what now? What will you do with all that freedom and time in the sunshine? Any plans to open up shop, get further educated and tie the knot? How about that 401k, isn't life better in old age with a check coming every day? Even with a new lease on life, you'll still have to strive, still have to fight, isn't that right?"

12 : The Phoenix

12 : The Phoenix

Life seems to haunt us with lessons we are not prepared to meet with grace or the passion often required to rise to the occasion. How so? How can passion and haunting lessons be mixed together in the same sentence? It should be no surprise to any of you that lessons are there for our own benefit, otherwise we'd call them something else, like tragedies. But what could be more tragic than a life without lessons? A life devoid of growth? Such things do exist, and never so much as now, for at the same time we are capable of living lives devoid of choice, following a prescription that one facet of society or culture has set, we are also creating machines with unchangeable programming that act in our world, changing it as programmed. Yet we are not so perfectly static as them, not yet. Our programs can change the moment we recognize them as merely that and chose a different way. 

Chapter 7 : Lost in Translation

Chapter 7 : Lost in Translation

Ever see that movie Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson? Probably not. I only saw it once and felt so alienated by its theme and pace that I hardly remember it all. But if you've ever dropped from a high place into darkness, not knowing whether you'd live or die, but knowing either way you'd be all alone with no one and nothing to bring you back but yourself, then you get the movie.

No Plan Japan 5 : Taking Flight

No Plan Japan 5 : Taking Flight

o sleep came to me the last night at home. In my head all I could hear was the songs from Rachael William's album "Elysium" repeating over and over. Its one of only three CD's I've ever bought or owned and stands in a league of its own in my opinion. Its a real heart opener. But it was something of a torture as all I wanted to do was sleep.

I was also sweating through my sheets, probably because I had a Chipotle burrito yesterday, that was a bad choice, all that hot sauce and sloppy soyrizo...  they cost $16 now... They were six dollars 20 years ago... That should make me feel old, but it just reminds me how weak our money has become, and all by design in order to collapse the middle class and consolidate business into the hands of a few power brokers.

No Plan Japan 2 : The Celestial Decision

No Plan Japan 2 : The Celestial Decision

There was once a time when astrology fell under the "woo woo" category for me, and the idea of deciding anything, especially anything important because of it was not only irresponsible but worse than gambling. At least with gambling you have a chance, right? Even so I found myself looking to the night sky as a youth, looking for permission, for a sign. One that would let me know that what I was about to do would result in good things, instead of bad ones.

No Plan Japan Episode 1 : In the Beginning

No Plan Japan Episode 1 : In the Beginning

In all of history there has always been two sides to a story, the planned and the unplanned. This story is of the second kind, and through it you find what life can be like when the mind is freed from the process, and the heart given the reigns.

Lets begin at the beginning, oddly enough this is not where Id choose to start if it were left solely up to me, more on that later, but regardless, the beginning must suffice, for now…

The Journey Awaits

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