journal features

the volcano is close tonight

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kagoshima, 2022.12.30

Welcome to Kagoshima, a city on a drowned "graben" and in the shadow of an active volcano. I've said it before, but I'll say it again: this city has surprisingly bad traffic.

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery