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Kokubunji, 2025.05.29

For a work get-together, we went to a nice French Cafe near the Naka-Meguro station. It turns out that the perhaps twenty-year-old waitress was from Dease Lake in northern British Columbia. I showed her that while we were countrymen, there was 5,200 kilometers between us by road.

long drive to her house

rand()m quote

If anyone tells you all is lost or all is fine, just nod and move on and live in the middle where everything matters.

—Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin, Twitter