journal features

forgetting Japanese grammar

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2023.12.07

Emma helped me with my homework today. She used a grammar pattern I didn't know. I mentioned this to my teacher tonight and she told me, "You learned that a year ago."

rand()m quote

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

—Wendell Berry