I realized that I haven't written for a long long time. Well, here I am.. about to change that - except for the fact that I have to be somewhere in a few moments. I should wait to write this entry for a time when I have nothing pressing in my immediate future moments, or when my mind doesn't feel like it is performing its lil' own juggling act. Ah well.
This photo is of Mount Inasa - or more comfortably pronounced, Inasa-yama. On my way up the leisurely climb to the top with good friend Hiroko and hubby, this past January 2008, when I was so fortunate to break free from my daily grind and take a six week adventure far from here. Three of those weeks spent with dear dear friends in Sydney, Oz and the latter three weeks by myself wandering Japan - a country I have come to know so well - and one I have missed ever since leaving her land five years prior.
I jumped on and off the shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo to Kyoto to Osaka, to Nagasaki, to Fukuoka, back to Kyoto and ending in Narita - with side day trips along the way. By myself. Reacquainting with a language I have not spoken for years, and reconnecting with a culture I have missed a great deal. I didn't do much to be honest other than spend the days walking aimlessly from here to there, one temple to another, revisiting old haunts, stumbling into some new. I met up with two friends in Nagasaki, and that's about it. It was quiet - me, my ipod and my feet wandering around town. I loved it.
A perfect way to cleanse out the mind end-of-year style and return here with a clear heart, spirit and completely ready for new adventures forward. The past seeming far far welcomingly far away.
Photo: Inasa-yama, Nagasaki, January 2008
