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Tokyo from the air at night

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.09.20

I had a flight for work at 19:00 on a Friday. We were delayed twice, changed gates, and then for some reason looped all the way around Tokyo Bay before heading west. We wound up circling Fukuoka as well, so I didn't get to my hotel at 23:00. Work travel, what can I say.

Every cloud's got a silver lining, they say. In this case the silver linings were the image below and the fact that I flew directly over our home at just about the time that The Boy was getting home.

Tokyo from the air at night

Apologies for the glare in the center of the image. The stuff in the upper right were tufts of cloud.

rand()m quote

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.

—Jorge Luis Borges