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Arakawa clean-up

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.28

Today we spent most of the day cleaning up a small stretch of the Arakawa, the large river that runs through the eastern side of Tokyo.

Mari organized the event for her office, after I came back with a good report from the clean-up expedition that my then-employer put on. The life insurance firm that Mari works for seems to have more energetic personnel than the bank I was working for. Or perhaps it was the level of organization that went into the event. I don't know, but I was a lot more impressed with the effort that the smaller life insurance firm put in, and I have to say that the results were a lot better—that stretch of the river was spotless.

Naturally, I've got photos galore

rand()m quote

The true patriot challenges the state when the state embarks on enhancing its power at the expense of the individual.

—Ron Paul, May 2007