Going Alone

I swam for a very long time in the ocean yesterday. Maybe an hour. There was a strong current sweeping the entire ocean left, and I...

I’m going surfing this morning. Something I haven’t done in over thirty years. I’m already prepared for failure; ready to simply float...

Exhausted… But what a fun day yesterday was. Hiko is here, and we shared the day and I showed him around. I overdid it, probably, which...

Today, I rendezvous with the past—my JVLOG past. That once lived life in Japan as a peripheral member of a loose community of ex-pat...

Such moments! I found myself, yesterday, back in the sea of my childhood; a warm, frothing surf, pulsing with great forward energies...

My body seems to be enjoying the cold. I’m not even putting on a shirt to go home, though I do shiver hard. That’s a good measure of a...