A Persimmon Biography
The last of the fall leaves on my persimmon tree dropped. This is what it looked like when it was in all its autumnal glory. I bought it two years ago at the neighborhood nursery. It was a skinny sapling of twigs with three persimmons hanging from the branches.
I left [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘home’
November 27, 2008
Ode to Persimmons
November 24, 2008
An Autumn Sunset and Other Views
This is the view from my balcony towards the west, last week. It was a particularly beautiful sunset. The big building on the right is the Ebisu Garden Tower. The one on the left is the Westin Hotel. It looks like the sun has split the hotel in the middle, but it’s [...]
September 18, 2008
Always Coming Home: The Windiad no. 12
This is the last installment of the Windiad, my epic journey back to the West Coast of the US, with thick references to Homer’s The Odyssey, another story about a man going home. To read the whole thing, all out of order but conveniently numbered for the linearly-minded, click on this sentence.
At the End [...]
August 22, 2008
Into a Storm: the Windiad no. 11
Wait a minute. What happened to the Windiad 7-10? I’ll fill those in in the coming days.
After 23 hours of total travel time from when we left my parents’ home, we finally returned to Japan last night to a typhoon-like rainstorm. The rain was blowing sideways. Consequently, today is nice and cool [...]
August 17, 2008
On the Banks of Rivers Past: the Windiad no. 6
The Ghosts of the Past
The reason Odysseus knew so much about Helios’s cattle and Charybdis and Scylla was because he consulted with Tiresias. Tiresias was a blind prophet who was consulted by everyone. At one point he dressed in drag for 7 years. Basically, he was a unique character. He gave [...]
