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Welcome to winter

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Nichinan, Miyazaki, 2008.12.21

Well it's winter again. My 38th on God's green Earth, and my son's second. I've always liked winter, and I have to say that Tokyo's Winters are just about right for me. Cool (hovering around 5 degrees), brief (only two-three months long) and for the most part sunny. A welcome change of pace from the Winters I lived through in Canada, of course (especially Vancouver's, just too gloomy). And even preferable I think to the extended springtime of Sydney which if anything was like an air conditioned hotel lobby -- a bit too perfect. Winter should have some teeth, after all.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009