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Kokubunji, 2023.01.25

The Boy has a semi-portable basketball net that sits in our driveway. They call it a "basketgoal" in Japan. Anyway, the wind was strong enough to shift the thing yesterday. I shifted it back this morning and as I did so I heard ice crashing in the usually-water-filled base. Brr!

Tokyo winters are a bit like Halifax winters in one regard: the humidity makes you feel the cold more. There are differences, however: by late March there are strawberries in the fields in the city where we live.

rand()m quote

An era may be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

—Arthur Miller