Leaving Japan . . . for Dummies 5 | |||||
Wishcraft by Barbara Sher | When you are 60+ and every muscle and bone in your body aches, packing becomes surreal....easier to throw out things, odder ways of combining them in boxes. A rule of thumb--for packing, allow a week for every decade of life; I'm two weeks short, alas. Green Day: April 29th National Holiday, the Showa Emperor's birthday, named "Green Day," by chance is the day I got a flight; green for 'go'.... "I don't need much money,
anyway," Hajime laughed. "Either way, we'll have to live
pretty modestly up on our mountain in Ajiro. My dad's about to retire,
you know. When you come to visit, you'll have to bring us meat, okay?" |
but symbolizes the same attachment.
--The
cherry blossoms at Himeji Castle (called 'the white heron'). Translating
Senhime,
the story of the princess, is a project! |
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Kay's
online garage sale mostly a coffee table |
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Notebook page ask EVERYBODY if they want any of your stuff---the unlikeliest people will in the end. | |||||
Notebook page Try to have a landlord who answers his phone.! | |||||
Notebook page do Post Office, bank, etc. as early as possible. | |||||
Helpful mantra: It is what it is. | |||||
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