This year has been proving to be a blur, which I’m not a fan of. After many years, I’m starting to feel uneasy that a year is constantly summarised by travels and work as milestones. This is not to say I don’t enjoy these blessings, but being (even) more intentional about my life choices have given me added clarity as of late.
It’s been a while since I’ve been back to Japan, and it’s always nice to have time between meetings to revisit old joints and discover some new ones. After three years away, it has come to my attention that the years spent studying the language has diminished to near zero, which is rather disheartening! Simple ordering (albeit in broken grammar) is relatively still fine, but the idea of having a conversation has rendered me frozen. Also, you know that once they compliment your language ability, you are just ‘ right. down. there’. Much less photos as of late as I spend a lot more time writing these days. Visual diaries are still so beautiful, but words have the ability to evoke notions like no other.
Denise Taw 