slide

slide
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After zazen I met Mako and Ton on their way to the park. Ton is way into the slide!

zazen debut

Today I was asked to lead zazen and the talk afterwards. There were only three of us, and when I sat down and rang the bell to start I realized I had no way to tell the time. So I ran out of the zendo and grabbed by cell. Oops.
Anyway the 30 minutes flew by, mainly because I was stressing about the upcoming talk.
That ended up being no problem. We read part of Omori Sogen's "An Introduction to Zen Training" and had a lovely chat. Hope it wasn' too terrible for anyone!

udon lunch

udon lunch
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yonnies

yonnies
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Had an offsite for work all day, then a dinner at Tableaux. Hadn't been there in years. Food looked excellent, but I didn't eat anything. Haven't eaten in a couple of days; think I got a stomach virus again. Or maybe I'm just in bad shape from not getting any sleep the past couple days.

After dinner we did the traditional karaoke and I got home at about 2 or 3 am. Sleepy

crimson room

Went to the publishing party for Takagi-san's first novel, Crimson Room.
I got the book on Monday and stayed up all night every night through Wednesday to finish it. It was most excellent; reminded of my favorite author Haruki Murakami.

At the party I saw some of the old creatives crew I used to hang with over 10 years ago; Oshige, Saburin, Hiro, Ota, and of course Kuro-chan, who is now a director at Rakuten.

mclaren

mclaren
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just looking

free range kids

Let kids be kids. Let overly protective hyper-active paranoid parents chill the hell out.

gundam @ uniqlo

gundam @ uniqlo
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tonchan eats

Tonchan eats
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Flickr video is way better than youtube!