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Editor's Notes

• #2: 1) How Japan Inspired Me\n\n{collage of ephemera}\n
• #3: 2) Heading to the far far west Kyoto Train station reading Gary Snyder - not knowing a word but ready for anything - so i thought - dropped off on snowy road to se tup house\n\n\n
• #4: 3) Mushroom farm - not a usual tour of duty amongst missionaries and teachers - worked so hard and was so lonely checking mail box for letters and searching for peanut butter or precious jars of salsa\n\n{view of mushroom farm}\n
• #5: 4) Hitchhiking all over from Shikoku to Nagano - living working along the way - explored agriculture to poetry and learned bits of history and culture rare even of Japanese \n\n{shikoku bouken}\n\n
• #6: 5) Patience - learning language one word at a time while working at enoki farm, learning skills for which i had no physical attributes\n\n{obachan in mushroom farm}\n
• #7: 7) Tolerance\n\n{with mayor}\n
• #8: 6) Soaking\n\n{in misasa on sen}\n
• #9: 8) Specialness - everytown is special for something and the folks want you to know that - a folk song, a special breed of nashi pears, \n\n{with hard boiled egg guy}\n
• #10: 9) Aesthetics - a deliberate sense of appreciation and refinements with words for which i had no reference - wabi sabi, a wee bit of inperfection, the you no bi - the beauty in utility}\n\n{?}\n
• #11: 13) grow weed \n{hokkaido plants}\n
• #12: 10) Ocean people - fish, boats, eating the whole damn fish, squid lights, \n\n{ferry ocean}\n
• #13: 12) resourcefulness - make anything, pickled this, fermented that, \n{gonda}\n
• #14: 11) committed - \n{metal planet}\n
• #15: 14) where it took me \n
• #16: 15) tour guide in guam\n
• #17: 16) palau\n
• #18: 17) haiku book\n
• #19: 18) cannabis culture\n
• #20: 19) runner up - beer vending machine\n\n
• #21: 20) im dave @uncleweed, i love hotsprings and japan\n