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memories

As I so often do, yesterday evening I took a moment to reflect on my life a little. Some­times my thoughts will veer towards more recent events that have tran­spired, and some­times they will wander a little farther. This time, I traveled seven years back into my past. Of course, my memory is not that of an elephant, so particular details […]

I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop. — NYTimes.com — [PDF] I find that photographs are snap­shots of time.  They are memories of a particular slice of life, a moment captured to be remem­bered for years to come, perhaps even life­times away.  Photographs can be a way to memo­ri­alize pieces of life that bring us to a certain emotional checkpoint. […]

Yes, being a hopeless romantic is a gift, and a curse: as the Shaolin say, in order for one to expe­rience joy, one must have the capacity to feel an equal pain. One beau­tiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fash­ionable Harujuku neigh­borhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. […]