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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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Global Mt Fuji

March 21, 2024
Tags: Japan, tourism, souvenirs, vending machine, globalization

First Page Stamped

March 20, 2024
Tags: Japan, books, sacred space, money, pilgrimage

Pilgrim Stamp Books

March 19, 2024
Tags: Japan, pilgrimage, books, souvenirs, sacred space, place

Remember the Mountain

March 19, 2024
Tags: Japan, souvenirs, mountains, place

Modernity of the Cute

March 19, 2024
Tags: Japan, aesthetic, science, sign, design, mountains, modernity

Transportation and the Sacred

March 16, 2024
Tags: Japan, tourism, cars, modernity, transportation, pilgrimage

Tourist Jaunts, Pilgrim Discipline

March 15, 2024
Tags: Japan, pilgrimage, tourism, mountains, spirituality, photography

Mountain Pilgrimage

March 15, 2024
Tags: Japan, mountains, sacred space, nature, pilgrimage, shrine, shinto, buddhism

One View of Mt Fuji

March 14, 2024
Tags: Japan, mountains, nature, art, hokusai, ocean

Mountain Goblins

March 14, 2024
Tags: Japan, shinto, mountains, folk religion, ritual, monster, tourism

The Boundary of Heaven and Earth

March 10, 2024
Tags: Japan, shrine, sacred space, shinto, symbols, mountains

Marking the Sacred

March 03, 2024
Tags: Japan, shinto, sacred space, mountains, national parks

Average Common Too

March 03, 2024
Tags: Japan, travel, photography, mountains

Tempted Toward Disappointment

February 27, 2024
Tags: Japan, travel, poetry, mountains, view

Japan by Way of Pakistan

February 26, 2024
Tags: Japan, travel, immigration, Pakistan, cars
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