interrupted after my first paragraph
I was trying to write but then I looked out the window and saw the dragonflies. They are hovering together in golden swarms over the rice paddies. I took Sora-kun for a walk through them and now I'm back, eating a greenhouse-grown Ehime tangerine.
This is reminding me of meeting up with Scottish Chris the other night. We went to an izakaya and then karaoke. Natsuko, a girl from Tsushima, told a story about a beetle that she found on the sidewalk outside of her apartment. It was all tired and sad looking, like it was about to die. Feeling sympathy for the little creature, she went and bought a little beetle cage for it, gave it specialized pet store beetle food and water in an upturned bottle top. In two days time it was all genki again, jumping and climbing around in its cage. Then she felt bad becuase it was all alone, so, she went back to the pet store and bought it a friend. "I couldn't find the same kind of beetle becuase they don't sell the kind that come in nature. The new one's a little bigger but they still like each other."
A few weeks earlier, she went on a fishing trip with Chris and her boyfriend Brian. Out in the middle of the Seto-Naikai they passed four swimming baby inoshishi (aka wild boars). "They were so cute!," she said. "And I was worried about them--so far out in the sea and just babies!" When they got back to shore, Brian and Chris did a search on the internet and found an article from the BBC describing an inoshishi that survived at sea for four days after a typhoon hit the nearest island. Inoshishi are good swimmers, even baby ones. "Sore de anshin shita ne." Hearing that made her feel a lot better.
Me too. I like the image of four baby inoshishi swimming around from island to island together (genki, with their bellies full of food).
This is reminding me of meeting up with Scottish Chris the other night. We went to an izakaya and then karaoke. Natsuko, a girl from Tsushima, told a story about a beetle that she found on the sidewalk outside of her apartment. It was all tired and sad looking, like it was about to die. Feeling sympathy for the little creature, she went and bought a little beetle cage for it, gave it specialized pet store beetle food and water in an upturned bottle top. In two days time it was all genki again, jumping and climbing around in its cage. Then she felt bad becuase it was all alone, so, she went back to the pet store and bought it a friend. "I couldn't find the same kind of beetle becuase they don't sell the kind that come in nature. The new one's a little bigger but they still like each other."
A few weeks earlier, she went on a fishing trip with Chris and her boyfriend Brian. Out in the middle of the Seto-Naikai they passed four swimming baby inoshishi (aka wild boars). "They were so cute!," she said. "And I was worried about them--so far out in the sea and just babies!" When they got back to shore, Brian and Chris did a search on the internet and found an article from the BBC describing an inoshishi that survived at sea for four days after a typhoon hit the nearest island. Inoshishi are good swimmers, even baby ones. "Sore de anshin shita ne." Hearing that made her feel a lot better.
Me too. I like the image of four baby inoshishi swimming around from island to island together (genki, with their bellies full of food).