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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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A Curving Trunk

December 27, 2023
Tags: Japan, tree, bonsai, view, art

Consider the Bonsai

December 27, 2023
Tags: Japan, garden, art, bonsai, tree, personal

View from the Tea House

December 26, 2023
Tags: Japan, view, garden, tea, city, park

Preserving a Beautiful Place

December 26, 2023
Tags: Japan, shinto, beauty, tea, preservation

Another Park Feeling

December 23, 2023
Tags: Japan, nation, shinto, park, tree, city

The Inner Garden

December 23, 2023
Tags: Japan, garden, shinto, park

A Charter for Individualism

December 22, 2023
Tags: Japan, individualism, government, nation, modernity

The Modern Emperor

December 22, 2023
Tags: Japan, shrine, story, history, modernity, sign

Husband and Wife Trees

December 22, 2023
Tags: Japan, tree, sign, sacred space, shrine, marriage

Could Someone Convert to Shintoism?

December 21, 2023
Tags: Japan, shinto, conversion, religion, civil religion

Explaining How to Pray

December 20, 2023
Tags: Japan, ritual, TikTok, globalization

Quiet Please, No Photos

December 20, 2023

Leaving Behind a Prayer

December 19, 2023
Tags: Japan, shinto, religion, ritual, prayer, shrine

Civil Religion as Actual Religion

December 19, 2023
Tags: Japan, shinto, shrine, civil religion, tourism, people, tokyo

Wood and Empire

December 18, 2023
Tags: Japan, material, nation, world war 2, shrine
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