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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2024.05.26

The doll behind this aquarium is a "daruma". You typically paint in an eye when you start a project, and paint in the other when you finish it. I have a lot of one-eyed daruma hanging around.

Anyway, I put his reproachful glare to us by monitoring the baby goldfish

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Impermanent are all created things; Strive on with awareness.

—Siddhārtha Gautama (The Buddha) - supposed dying words