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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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Picturesque Statues

January 27, 2024
Tags: shrine, New York, mary, money, capitalism, sacred space

Another Example of Repetition

January 27, 2024
Tags: Japan, money, design, statue, buddhism

Effects of Repetition

January 27, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, shinto, design

Bringing a Shrine into History

January 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, tokyo, city, sacred space

Clean Modern City

January 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, street scene, modernity, city, trash, tokyo, sacred space

Important Spiritual Ground

January 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, shinto, preservation, tokyo

Poems Instead of Photos

January 24, 2024
Tags: Japan, poetry, view, photography

Beautiful but Falling Away

January 21, 2024
Tags: Japan, flower, view, art

A Companion to the Seasons

January 21, 2024
Tags: Japan, museum, clothing, season, poetry, art

Taking Photos in a Museum

January 21, 2024
Tags: Japan, art, museum, tree

Iris and Hydrangea

January 20, 2024
Tags: Japan, flower, art, season, time, view

Celebrating Seasons

January 19, 2024
Tags: Japan, museum, art, flower, season, birds, tokyo

Love for Things that Change

January 19, 2024
Tags: Japan, flower, nature, view, nation

Markers for Lost Views

January 18, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, view, sign, history, public transportation

How to Manage a Recognition

January 16, 2024
Tags: Japan, tokyo, building, business, street scene, film, Internet, google
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