May 2011
9 posts
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via kari-shma)
sugar i love →
Since a few months after I started living in San Francisco, on every Thursday, I would wait for a column to be up on one of my favorite websites, The Rumpus (in fact, I’m such a big fan that I…
dealing with tragedy →
Bin Laden is dead. When I read the news on Twitter, I was struck by the empty feeling I always feel when I hear news of someone’s death. Every time I get shocked, by the fact that someone who has…
“「無知とは、知識がないことではなく、疑問が持てないこと」”
– Bo-der Tsu-shin - nemurenai☆ (via taizooo) 2007-08-25 (via gkojay) (via petapeta) (via ipodstyle) (via yaruo) (via subdub, kssk) (via thinkupstudio) (via 54kan) (via konishiroku) (via hiro1386) (via usaginobike) (via yokokick) (via deeekooo) (via hopper-bopper) (via fishandmush) (via johnnys) (via...
April 2011
8 posts
a young boy's voice from iwate →
Today, I read heartbreaking journal entries by Yuta Hakoishi, a twelve-year-old boy from Yamada, Iwate, a town that was severely damaged by the tsunami. Here’s an English translation that I did on a…
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...”
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we...”
– Mother Teresa (via kari-shma)
“「（被災地にいると）起こってしまったんだから何とかするしかない、って思うようになるんですよ」...”
– CHISAI HASEBE -BLOG-｜honeyee.com Web Magazine (via yuco)
“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via kari-shma)
March 2011
32 posts
a song →
“中国人「横浜の放射線量がいまだにウチの国よりマシな件について」”
– 「日中文化交流」と書いてオタ活動と読む : 中国人「横浜の放射線量がいまだにウチの国よりマシな件について」 (via toronei)
“どのチャンネルつけても、報道番組一色で、オイラはすっかりテレビから遠ざかっちまった。こうなってくると、ホントにお笑い芸人とかバラエティ番組にできることは少ないよ。...”
– 『言葉の覇者』 ～ビートたけし＆苫米地英人を読み解くブログ～ ビートたけし、「被災地に笑いを」なんて戯れ言だ【長文抜粋】 (via katoyuu)
“ウチの母が「トイレットペーパーから放射能が検出されたと言えばいいのに」とリベラル過ぎる発言を繰り出した。確かに買占めは一発で収まるだろうが……。”
– Twitter / 片岡一郎 (via otsune)
“Live to the point of tears.”
– Albert Camus (via kari-shma)
“東京「お前が関東地方？笑わせんなｗ」茨城「そ、そんな…」神奈川「茨城は南東北地方だろｗｗ」茨城「ひどい…」千葉「…だからさ、お前は関東じゃないんだから停電しなくて...”
– Twitter / @ななな (via nicotineaddictjp)
“We have evil in us, all of us do, and my evil, which happened to come out,...”
– Aileen Wuornos
dead and alive, living and dying →
My late grandfather
Over the weekend, my mom and I visited Yamagata, where she grew up. The main purpose of the trip was to see her mom, my grandmother, in the hospital. From what…
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to...”
– Voltaire (via kari-shma)
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone...”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma)
“幸せだったか、不幸だったか、えらいとか、立派とか、あるいは可哀そうとか、人は簡単にそんなことをいい過ぎる。人はかく生きて、かく死んだ。それだけだ。それ以外に何もい...”
– 佐藤愛子 『血脈』
“死は悲しむべきものではない。遺された者にとって別れが悲しいだけで、死んで行く者には安息だ。”
– 佐藤愛子 『血脈』
“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have...”
– Sugar (Dear Sugar on The Rumpus)
“Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; Be careful of...”
– Mother Teresa
“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
December 2009
1 post
