journal features

and the weather finally broke

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.09.08

For six or seven weeks this summer, it's been hot and humid. Very hot, and very humid.

Then today at last the weather changed, and I heard my very first storm warning on the PA system. Here are a couple of pics taken from my balcony.

blowing in the wind

happiness tree

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln