Today the weather was fine and spring-like so HJ and I climbed up to the top of Daimonji and looked at Kyoto all strewn out white before us like a field of polished bones, and we climbed up a bit further to the top and listened to tiny little birds pat-pat-pattering against the branches of the pine trees, and we watched the sun sink and get fatter and redder and it’s reflection on those distant white rooftops shimmering like it would on a lake and for a moment we felt just a wee bit at peace. Which was something we needed very much as the evil bureaucrats at the Immigration Office have turned down HJ’s request for a student visa and quite frankly we don’t know what to do about that now…
Happier news is that one of my first students from 10 years back in Fukushima, dear Hibari, has had a baby girl and her name is Kanon. Congratulations!
And this I just read and felt encouraged: “…a survey released on Tuesday showed most Japanese voters agreed with Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma when he said U.S. President George W. Bush was wrong to start the war… starting the Iraq war was a mistake and its foreign minister called the U.S. occupation strategy “immature”.”
Hurrah - A Japanese Defence Minister with SPINE!
And YUI just sent me a mail with lots of unbelievable chalk drawings by one Julian Beever. Click on that link and be amazed.
And here’s a message for CARRIE VAN HORN should she google her name again: Oi! Send me your email address so I can reply to your message properly!
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