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goodbye, home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.12.21

It's our last day in Tokyo.

We've moved out of our apartment and spent the night in a surprisingly cheap hotel that Mari found not too far from our home. And so ends a really memorable home: it was, at 39 months, the longest I've lived anywhere since I left my parents' home in 1989; and it was the happiest home I've known; it was the most expensive place I've ever lived.

We had enough space for the three of us, we had a really excellent view (including an old shrine!) and we had a large enough living room to entertain friends from time to time--even rambunctious little children.

I wonder what's next!

rand()m quote

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—Siddhārtha Gautama (The Buddha)