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8/5/2025 0 Comments 新幹線In a flash. . .
No. Not really a flash. It’s slower than that. But it’s also faster than that. It’s less predictable than a flash. It’s more tangible than a flash. Sometimes, if you breathe just right, you can sit in a moment. You can stretch time but if you aren’t careful, it snaps like a rubber band and suddenly, it moves even faster -- moments hurling past until you manage to snag another one out of the air and stretch it, sit in it, breathe slower, soak it all in before it starts to speed past again. If you practice snatching moments out of the air, you will find them less elusive-- easier to catch-- easier to commune with-- a more natural part of your life. And we need to catch these moments-- savor them-- hold them dear-- bathe in them-- becuase no matter how artful a time-catcher one becomes, everything between those small moments you grab is 新幹線. *新幹線 — Shinkansen — Japanese bullet train
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8/1/2025 0 Comments Strike Up the BandIn every corner of the earth
a song plays. It changes ever so slightly, shifting and morphing as you travel around the globe through various mountain ranges and cities and seas. The rhythm, the harmonies, the ways the music weaves in and out, the combinations of instruments: They all form the soundtrack telling who and why and how that place is. And everywhere you find yourself-- be it for an hour or a century-- you find that-- for better or worse-- your own melody, the instrument you are, and the way you sing your life, you join the symphony or cacophony that is there. You may find the dissonance is more than you can bear and you cannot stay for long. Sometimes, the tunes overlap in a pleasing way for just a verse or two. And sometimes-- when you’re lucky-- you find the orchestra you were always tuned to play with. |
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